Male Bonding - Year's Not Long

Name: Male Bonding - Year's Not Long
Uploaded: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Male Bonding emerged from Dalston, London's thriving DIY underground scene circa 2008–2010, signing to Sub Pop Records — one of the few UK acts to do so — and releasing Nothing Hurts in May 2010. 'Year's Not Long,' the album's opening track, appeared on Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2010 and was released as a standalone single as early…

2010 · Late-2000s/Early-2010s DIY Noise-Pop Boom (2009–2010) · music video

Male Bonding - Year's Not Long music video

2010Late-2000s/Early-2010s DIY Noise-Pop Boom (2009–2010)2000s–2010s lo-fi/noise-pop DIY indie underground (Sub Pop/Dalston scene)

What this video is

Male Bonding emerged from Dalston, London's thriving DIY underground scene circa 2008–2010, signing to Sub Pop Records — one of the few UK acts to do so — and releasing Nothing Hurts in May 2010. 'Year's Not Long,' the album's opening track, appeared on Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2010 and was released as a standalone single as early as 2009. The band occupied a transatlantic noise-pop axis alongside No Age,…

Why it matters

As the lead single and album opener from Nothing Hurts, 'Year's Not Long' served as the definitive entry point to Male Bonding's catalog and a high-profile example of the early-2010s lo-fi noise-pop wave. The video codifies the genre's visual grammar: low-budget performance documentation that…

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