UK band Young Knives have released “Cause & Effect,” the latest single off their forthcoming album Landfill, available January 24th, via Gadzook. The track, follows the album’s lead single “Dissolution.”Landfill is the follow-up to the band’s 2020 album Barbarians.

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 & 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.”

Young Knives
Landfill
tracklisting

1. A Memory Of Venom
2. Ugly House
3. Cause & Effect
4. The People From the Second Way
5. Dissolution
6. No Sound
7. Your car has arrived
8. Gone, Gone, Completely Gone
9. Love The Knives
10. Fresh Meat

Young Knives 2025 live dates

Tues 28th Jan – Joiners, Southampton, UK
Weds 29th Jan – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
Thurs 30th Jan – Underworld, London, UK
Fri 31st Jan – The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK
Sat 1st Feb – Komedia, Brighton, UK – SOLD OUT
Tues 4th Feb – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
Weds 5th Feb – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
Thurs 6th Feb – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
Fri 7th Feb – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
Sat 8th Feb – Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT

Pre-order new album Landfill HERE