Official press release:
On June 6th, 2006, Texas-bred instrumental rock ensemble This Will Destroy You unleashed their debut Young Mountain and never looked back. The album’s soaring guitar-lead dynamism, cascading cinematic passages, and jarring crescendos captured the hearts and minds of independent music listeners immediately upon release and has, a decade later, yet to loosen its grip. As Young Mountain celebrates its ten-year anniversary, a retrospective look at the six-track, thirty-six-minute composition shows quite clearly why it has always been considered a masterpiece by much of This Will Destroy You’s ardent international fanbase and still continues to permeate deeper into global consciousness to this day.
This Will Destroy You recently confirmed a short run of live dates this summer from August 23rd through August 28th with Minus The Bear as well as four special anniversary shows this November which will celebrate Young Mountain as well as the band’s self-titled studio album, also nearing its ten-year mark. The band will be playing both records in their entirety in November. See all confirmed dates below.
The band will be reissuing Young Mountain on CD and digitally on October 28th and on LP (date TBD) via Magic Bullet Records. The reissue edition will come with an original, never-before-heard bonus track “Sleep”. Pre-orders will be available in the coming months.
Additionally, This Will Destroy You recently launched an eBay charity auction where they auctioned off a special Young Mountain package that included the original drawing of the Young Mountain album cover by Christopher Royal King on a page torn from his geology notebook as well as the original limited cassette tape version of Young Mountain with fake fur casing made in 2005. The set was actioned off for nearly $500 which was donated to the Equality Florida Go Fund Me to benefit the victims of the Pulse Nightclub attacks.
Tour dates:
8/23 – Bellingham, WA | Wild Buffalo *
8/24 – Vancouver, BC | Venue *
8/26 – Seattle, WA | Neptune Theatre 2016 Suicide Squeeze 20th Anniversary Show *
8/27 – Portland, OR | Wonder Ballroom *
8/28 – Spokane, WA | Knitting Factory *
11/04 – San Francisco, CA | Great American Music Hall ^
11/05 – Los Angeles, CA | Teragram Ballroom ^
11/18 – Chicago, IL | Metro ^
11/20 – New York, NY | Bowery Ballroom ^
* = w/ Minus The Bear
^ = 10 year anniversary shows