Brutal Youth Reveal New Album “Rebuilding Year”

Toronto melodic hardcore outfit Brutal Youth, have just released their brand new full length, Rebuilding Year via Stomp Records along with a video for the album’s title track. Rebuilding Year calls to mind late 80’s and early 90’s West Coast punk, with hints of Adolescents, Big Drill Car, ALL, NOFX and Good Riddance scattered throughout. The melodic vocals of Patty O’Lantern soar above the wall of guitars and a backbeat reminiscent of SNFU‘s Jon Card and Belke Brothers era.

“No matter where you are in life you can always flip everything and take control of your situation. It might be hard work, it might be overwhelming, but if you settle into doing the work you can rebuild on every pile of ashes. You can’t spell hopeless without hope. For the first half of this thing I was in a pretty terrible place personally, I got sick of being sad and took some time by myself in a cabin alone in the woods to collect myself. I started thinking I don’t want to keep living the same year over and over. This one is a love letter to life and the power we have to transform it. It’s also a love letter to 7 Seconds. The last song on the record, also the title track. This one means the most to me honestly because it was a projection of where I wanted to be instead of where I was. Our bassist, Kyle kept telling me to “disengage” from the negativity that I was immersed in – actually that was the working title of this song and the original idea for the name of the record “Disengage”. This is my favorite track for sure”. (Patty O’Lantern)

On Rebuilding Year we find the band once again breaking the rules and rewriting their own playbook. 14 songs that range from mid-tempo melodic sing-alongs, to blistering fast knockout tracks on a record all about dealing with personal ruination, redesign, and redemption. Rebuilding Year is the Brutal Youth‘s most well-constructed and cohesive release to date. Tense and brooding about how life can grind you down into nothing, then melodic and resolute to make those necessary changes for the better because like they say “you get back what you put in.”