Returning in infectious and anthemic style, Paris Youth Foundation release their new single ‘The Back Seat’.
The Liverpool five-piece was forced to abandon last year’s touring mission but, the group have been tinkering away on lots of new music instead.
In true Paris Youth Foundation fashion, ‘The Back Seat’ is filled with infectious, brightly-lit sound of youth into a brighter future, the band picks up front man, Kev Potter’s 21st Century lost love saga.
Following up on ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is’; an ICM Sound of 2020 and Track of the Year nominee, and ‘Late Night Love Lost, the band drench you in sweet pop melodies, driving drum beats and soaring vocals.
Drawn from real life, Potter’s lyrics rush through a long, summer night out in Liverpool, feeling the heat of every moment on the dancefloor, before the desolate, drunken realisation that alcohol’s sticking plaster has come undone. Out comes the phone, dialling a familiar number.
Potter says of the track: “‘The Back Seat’ is an upbeat sad song about two people getting to grips with being on their own, trying to hide their pain with drink and how drunk calling someone and hearing their voice mail at 4am makes you feel a little less alone.
“All those messages you’ve typed out, but never had the courage to send end with a sense of inevitability and the regrettable call being made in the taxi on the way home.”
Assembled with drummer Nathan Price, bassist Mike Bower and Tom Morris Jones and Jamie Hives on guitar in 2016, Paris Youth Foundation got their name from graffiti spotted in a Metro Station in the French capital, remembered by Potter from a childhood visit and decided, spur of the moment, for the release of the band’s breakthrough debut, ‘If You Wanna’.
Working with Blossoms and Courteeners producer, Rich Turvey at the legendary Parr Street Studios, Liverpool, ‘The Back Seat’ brings out the best in the talented pop makers, entwining carnal, danceable beats and stadium-sized guitars in an unmissable landgrab on ground taken up by peers including Catfish and The Bottlemen, The 1975 and Two Door Cinema Club.
Check out the lyric video below.
