Young Punx - All These Things Are Gone

2014 release, the third album from the Young Punx, the puckish agent-provocateurs of the Dance music scene, simultaneously celebrating and challenging everything that club culture can and should be. ALL THESE THINGS ARE GONE is an alternately joyous and melancholic journey investigating the themes of the passage of time, and what is accidentally lost from culture in the name of progress. The album is built around the heart of the epic 14 minute title track, which deadpan catalogs over 60 things which are only connected by virtue of no-longer being around anymore, against a constantly developing soundscape inspired by the bliss House of '90s artists like the Beloved and St Etienne. Elsewhere on the album the Young Punx find their inspiration by journeying through time and space to different lost eras in music history, recording and producing in those vintage styles using 100% period correct vintage gear, and then sampling themselves to make new tracks such as the fierce 70s Jazz Funk inspired Harlem Breakdown, and 30s big band carnage of Kowloon Kickback.