Today, Young the Giant released their first ever live album, Young The Giant – Live Across America ’23. The release follows the band’s 52-date North American tour showcasing epic performances at venues such as the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre to the FivePoint Amphitheatre in their hometown of Irvine, CA. The 18-track album features live versions of the band’s previously released catalog, including platinum hits “My Body” and “Cough Syrup” to “The Walk Home” from last year’s American Bollywood.
“After 5 studio albums, we decided it was a good time to release our first live album, Young The Giant – Live Across America ‘23. We take pride in our live performance and love the immediacy and energetic exchange between the band and our amazing fans. Here is a collection of 18 songs, recorded at different shows throughout our 2023 North American summer tour. It’s a mix of all 5 records, and showcases our decade + of writing, recording and touring together.” – Young the Giant
The 2023 North American tour was the band’s most successful to date with 300k tickets sold across the tour.
The recorded versions of these songs have over 860 million streams on Spotify alone.
Track listing:
- American Bollywood (Live)
- Wake Up (Live)
- Something To Believe In (Live)
- Cough Syrup (Live)
- The Walk Home (Live)
- I Got (Live)
- Anagram (Live)
- I Bite (Live)
- Nothing’s Over (Live)
- Dollar $tore (Live)
- Cult of Personality (Live)
- Heat of the Summer (Live)
- Titus Was Born (Live)
- Mind Over Matter (Live)
- Firelight (Live)
- Superposition (Live)
- Tightrope (Live)
- My Body (Live)
American Bollywood was the first Young the Giant album in four years, and the studio single “The Walk Home” steadily climbed up the charts to the top 15 on Alternative radio. American Bollywood is available on vinyl on the band’s webstore and streaming everywhere via AWAL/Jungle Youth Records. Since the last album, Mirror Master, three of the band members became fathers. With lyrics mostly written by the band’s lead singer Sameer Gadhia, the son of Indian immigrants, the album tells the multi-generational saga of the American immigrant, and the origins, exiles, battles, and denouement of reclaiming their collective identity. “This is not just the story of an Indian-American caught in between two worlds,” the band’s Sameer Gadhia previously said, “it’s also our universal search to find meaning in chaos.” The album was co-produced by John Hill (Santigold, M.I.A., Phantogram, Khalid) and the members of Young The Giant.
Young the Giant was established in 2004 and is comprised of Sameer Gadhia (vocals), Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata (guitar), Francois Comtois (drums) and Payam Doostzadeh (bass).
