Welcome To Conceptual Beach (2020)

"Sometimes listening to Young Jesus, the elastic rock group from LA, can be a little intimidating. Their previous two records S/T and The Whole Thing is Just There engage with some heady concepts—big, ambitious ideas about the meaning of feeling, time, existence, nature, stretched out and explored in exploratory and sometimes improvisational indie rock aesthetics that absorb techniques from jazz and jam bands in equal measure. With their new record, Welcome to Conceptual Beach, none of that has really changed, but the results feel somewhat different. S/T and The Whole Thing both expanded and refined Young Jesus’s core touchstones, but they still felt like they rested firmly in the landscape of emo-adjacent indie rock. But on Welcome to Conceptual Beach, the band has transformed into something a little cleaner, a little more precise, and, most of all, they’ve grown into a band that seems to be wholly in a league of their own. " (The alternative)