Young Knives drop new single ‘Cause & Effect’

Young Knives press photo
Photo credit: Hannah Carter

New album ‘Landfill’ out January 24, 2025 via Gadzook
UK Headline Tour – Tickets on sale now!


New single Cause & Effect out now!

British art-rock provocateurs Young Knives are back with Cause & Effect, the latest preview from their upcoming album ‘Landfill,’ set for release on January 24, 2025.

Following the critically acclaimed lead single Dissolution, which paired scratchy guitars with tumbling piano and ego-dismantling lyrics, Cause & Effect continues the band’s unpredictable, off-kilter journey, mixing murmuring synths, voice modulation, and jagged guitars to craft something both peculiar and profound.

Listen now: Streaming platforms
Watch the lyric video via YouTube below

Frontman Henry Dartnall explains: “The lyrics explore some weird problems with the concept of time—it seems like an illusion. Cause and effect rely on time, but if time doesn’t really exist, what’s actually happening? Also, the song is essentially middle-aged white men rapping. Did we question whether that was okay? Not at all. We’re way past caring. We just went for it. I love hip-hop, so why not give it a go? The lyrics were written in three hours and recorded the same day—pure instinct.”

YOUNG KNIVES 2025 UK HEADLINE TOUR

Tickets on sale now: Get yours here

Young Knives tour poster

UK Tour Dates:
January 28 – Joiners, Southampton, UK
January 29 – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
January 30 – Underworld, London, UK
January 31 – The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK
February 1 – Komedia, Brighton, UK (SOLD OUT)
February 4 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
February 5 – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
February 6 – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
February 7 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
February 8 – Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK (SOLD OUT)

Don’t miss your chance to see Young Knives live!


Inside ‘Landfill’: A Chaotic, Surrealist Journey

Four years after the ferocious, philosophical ‘Barbarians’ (2020), Young Knives return with ‘Landfill’—a record that dives into existence, time, and the things we leave behind.

For a band that emerged in the post-indie-rock-revival of the 2000s, the album title playfully nods to the “landfill indie” label often thrown at their era. But rather than dwelling on the past, Young Knives use this album to explore impermanence, identity, and the absurdity of clinging to anything too tightly.

“It’s about letting things go before they’re taken from you—especially the curated images of ourselves,” Dartnall reflects. “Everything fades, even the most successful people in history eventually disappear into the void. So why take it all so seriously?”

Fun fact: The album was recorded using a dusty, barely functioning tape machine bought from a car boot sale. The band layered live takes over decayed tape loops, giving ‘Landfill’ an unpredictable, textured feel that perfectly captures the rawness and unpredictability of life itself.

Young Knives Landfill cover artwork

Landfill’ tracklist

  1. A Memory Of Venom
  2. Ugly House
  3. Cause & Effect
  4. The People From the Second Way
  5. Dissolution
  6. No Sound
  7. Your Car Has Arrived
  8. Gone, Gone, Completely Gone
  9. Love The Knives
  10. Fresh Meat

Pre-order ‘Landfill’ here

Young Knives are back. The weird just got weirder. Embrace the chaos.

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