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Young Knives are today sharing new single 'Cause andamp; Effect', the latest new music to be taken from forthcoming album Landfill.

'Cause andamp; Effect' follows the album's lead single 'Dissolution' a song that cast scuffed-up, scratchy guitars and tumbling piano motifs alongside lyrics aimed at dismantling the ego. It arrives just weeks ahead of Landfill's release, which has already drawn praise in UK press as being "gleefully surrealist" (Classic Pop) and "a gloriously idiosyncratic listen" (Uncut 8/10). 'Cause andamp; Effect' is characteristically peculiar and discordant, the band creating a patchwork of murmuring synths, voice modulation and ringing guitars to consider their own reality. 

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Lead singer and guitarist Henry Dartnall says of the song: "The central idea behind the lyrics is a bit obscure: I became aware of a few problems with the concept of time that inspired the song. The main problem is that time seems to be kind of illusory. What I mean by that is that anything outside of the present moment is basically just a thought. And the present moment doesn’t seem to pass, ie. it is always the present moment. “Cause andamp; Effect” is entirely a time-based concept: You do one thing and it makes another thing happen, in time. But if time is an illusion, then what is really happening? It also implies somehow that we can control the world, like we understand how our actions now effect our future.

Musically the track is basically middle-aged white men rapping. At no point in the process have we questioned whether it’s OK for us to rap, it’s just a thing we did: We are pretty much past caring at this point, you just have to launch into these things and see what happens. I am a huge Hip Hop fan like any self-respecting middle aged white man should be so it made sense to give it a whizz. I wrote the lyrics in about 3 hours and recorded them the same day."

Pre-order new album Landfill here

Landfill was produced by the band in their studio in Oxfordshire and Mixed by Mike Lindsay of Tuung.

Hear new single 'Cause andamp; Effect' on streaming services here and share the lyric video via YouTube below.