Gang of Youths - angel in realtime.

Released 25th February 2022.

Gang of Youths say, the album is about the life and legacy of Dave's father, indigenous identity, death, grief and God. And also the Angel, Islington.

Despite and indeed because of frontman Dave Leaupepes fathers absence, his influence permeates every talking point that the album offers. At times its solely focused upon the precise, personal experiences of loss: the dichotomy of intensity and peace that comes as someone passes through their final days; the overwhelming feeling in the wake of their death that life will never be the same, even if the rest of the world at large remains utterly unchanged.

Following their recent singles, the angel of 8th ave. , telling of falling in love in a new city and making a home in another, and the man himself, a song created around a sample recording from the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands that is about living without