Youth Avoiders ‘Defiance’

Eight years have passed since France’s YOUTH AVOIDERS released their second album, 2018’s Relentless. In a world ruled by urgency and immediacy, taking the time to do things properly still matters. Beyond the hundreds of shows played worldwide, this period in the band’s life was marked by major events: a global pandemic and a lineup change. These shocks required the band to step back in order to finish this new record the way it deserved. While the previous two records were released in the US and Canada, Defiance was originally pressed by the band’s own label with very limited distribution and customers in the states having to pay import prices, until this new vinyl pressing on Bottom Six Records.