Moments

Yung is is jangly indie-garage with a dash of Scandinavian noir. They sound like the kind of band who should be playing in Olympia, Washington, rather than the freezing Jutland coastline of Aarhus. Yung could be the distant danish relative to Ty Segall and Jay Reatard; garage rock drifting from wildness and noise to tender and melodic.

The music of Danish band Yung is the sound of young iconoclasts fighting against apathy. Led by 21-year-old frontman and songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkjær, the group hails from Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, a huge port, university town and ideal place to find like minds amid the industrial grit.

On the latest EP “These Thoughts Are Mandatory Chores,” they show themselves to be ambassadors of their country’s increasingly vital underground music scene. Anthemic guitars, coarse feedback and driving rhythm, insistent to the point of impatience, show angst acting as a powerful fuel for self-expression, gasoline poured on a fire already fed by youthful energy.

Tears is another great representative of the growing and bustling music scene in Aarhus these days. Tears is gloomy 80'er pop wrapped in captivating melancholy.

Tears is the name of yet another musical project signed by Jeppe Grønbæk. With his Casio-keyboard in his hands, the pop warrior tells the story about new blood in a big city, the necessarity of banality and Abba.