Young the Giant return with their newest full-length album Mirror Master via Elektra Records, which includes the recently shared tracks “Simplify” and “Call Me Back”, along with the musing, buzzworthy new single “Superposition”.
Describing the overall thesis for Mirror Master, vocalist Sameer Gadhia explains:
Within one single day, we’re all so many different people. Especially with the use of social media, we’re not just living in the now-we’re living on several different timelines simultaneously. A lot of the album came from thinking about how we have all these separations within ourselves that allow us to go about our day. At a time when everyone wants to put each other in a box-culturally, socially, musically-we wanted to show that there are a multitude of reflections inside everything. We don’t have to be a certain thing; we can contradict ourselves and show all these different sides of who we are.
Mirror Master finds Young the Giant in a transitional period for America, not only as a culture (for their former album Home of the Strange, NPR’s Alisa Chang had an in-depth conversation with Gadhia about the ‘modern immigration story’, available to read here), but also technologically. The band members have become increasingly aware of society’s attachment to social media, cellphones, and elevated, sometimes fabricated, self-portrayals on the internet.
