Marking a significant evolution for the band, “Compañero” finds frontman and primary songwriter, David Le’aupepe looking, beyond the deeply personal confessions that have defined much of their catalogue, embracing a broader approach to songwriting through vivid storytelling, classic Americana and an unexpected sense of euphoria.
A Spanish noun meaning companion, partner or comrade, “Compañero” speaks to the ideas of connection and shared experience at the heart of the record, while also reflecting its central preoccupation with mortality and the different ways death touches our lives.
Flush with all the sounds you’ve come to know and love – modern brass, lush strings, a crack rhythm section, and lyrics about entropy…this song can be enjoyed anywhere, on any sound system and on any occasion. In fact, why don’t you throw it on right now?
It signals a new chapter in the band’s ever-evolving sound, one that finds Gang Of Youths confronting life’s biggest questions with a different perspective.
Do you ever mediate on the misery and mysteries of modern life? Do you contemplate the mundane darkness at the heart of the nuclear family? What about the dull, ordinary violence that lurks beneath the veneer polite society? Well, don’t worry, because your old friends Gang Of Youths have it all figured out…
Presented in sublime stereo: “Benny’s Video”, the second single from their long awaited fourth album “Compañero“.
Gang Of Youths are Jung Kim, Donnie Borzestowski, Tom Hobden, and David Le’aupepe.
