The Young Knives

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About The Young Knives

The Oxford, U.K., indie trio the Young Knives took four years to become an "overnight" success. Their first EP was released in 2002, but the band's full-length debut, VOICES OF ANIMALS AND MEN, wasn't delivered until August 2006. Simultaneously recalling Wire, Sparks, a bit of the classic Britpop sound, and even a little Queen, Young Knives featured the sort of angular guitars and brisk punk melodies that marked many an early-2000s U.K. indie act, but it was the complex, near-theatrical vocal arrangements that set them apart from many of their post-punk-reviving contemporaries.