Crisis Works

VINYL FORMAT. Young Legionnaire is the brainchild of Gordon Moakes (Bloc Party) and Paul Mullen (yourcodenameis:milo). Young Legionnaire initially started following a chance meeting between Paul and Gordon during the recording sessions for the Print Is Dead album in 2006, where Gordon guested on the track "Wait a Minute" with Paul and the rest of YCNI:M. Some more meetings and conversations followed, eventually leading to their first rehearsals together as a band in 2009. Now joined by full time drummer Dean Pearson, 2011 will see the fruits of their labor. Crisis Works is about noise, volume, being heavy and being loud, as Gordon puts it: "(We wanted) to make a big, juddering noise but weave a trail of melody through it." He goes on, "Even though the format of guitar, bass, drums and vocal is established, is nothing ground-breaking, the possibilities are endless. There's always another riff to write, a heavier sound to find. And we're looking for the magic in the gaps between the riffs too. There's a tenderness to it, a fragility almost, that we stumbled upon, and I'm inspired by that, to discover that. The record is about the brutal, the fragile and the possible."