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Young Widows is an American band from Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
The band was formed in 2006 from the ashes of mathcore group Breather Resist. In December 2005, lead singer Steve Sidoni left Breather Resist, and guitarist Evan Patterson and bassist Nick Thieneman assumed the vocal duties. They entered the studio in early 2006 but found that their sound had changed significantly. They then changed the name from Breather Resist to Young Widows. Read more on Last.fm
I’ve been working essentially 12+ hour days and commuting home late at night recently, and this has been my go-to drive home record. After many listens, I’ve grown comfortable in building a relationship with this record. I feel it’s sort of kindred spirit to my insomniatic, million-miles-away world-wearniess. The most accurate descriptor of what we find here is “haunted” … it was no coincidental choice that these songs were recorded in a Midwestern funeral home. Evan Patterson’s demons menacingly circle the heart of this record from a distance, and the result is an arty, woozy, unsettling interpretation of the exorcising powers of a broken man’s blues. Sonically, they’re a band’s band: a perfect mix (via Kevin Ratterman, following the mighty Kurt Ballou’s touches on their 2008 effort) locks in Patterson’s galaxian Telecaster jangle with bassist Nick Theineman’s near-infamous leviathan bass muslce. With Youth, the group has finally outgrown the pejorative Jesus Lizard comparisons and evolved into a territory they now solely occupy. This one nears the tip-top of my Best of 2011.