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Artist: Young Galaxy
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Group Members:

Stephen Ramsay, Catherine McCandless

Similar Artists:

The Foundry Field Recordings, Beat Radio, Gardening, Not Architecture, Certainly, Sir, Roofwalkers, Lab Partners, Miracle Fortress, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Paul Duncan, Goodbye the Band, Radical Face, Pagoda, Joy Wants Eternity, The Dears

Influenced By:

Yo La Tengo, The Sea and Cake, Flaming Lips, Air, Luna

Formal Connection With:

Stars
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Young Galaxy

Biography

Ex-Stars touring guitarist Stephen Ramsay founded space rock outfit Young Galaxy with girlfriend Catherine McCandless. The two got started in Vancouver and relocated to Montreal to live and record. They were brought onboard by Stars' label, Arts & Crafts, and released an EP and limited-edition 7". With a live lineup in place, Young Galaxy toured with the Dears in fall 2006. In April 2007 the band presented a self-titled debut album featuring contributions from the Dears, The Besnard Lakes, Stars, Patrick Watson, and A Silver Mt. Zion. ~ Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide
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Young Galaxy

Young Galaxy performing at Winterlude in Ottawa, February 2007.
Background information
Origin Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genres Indie pop
Dream pop
Labels Arts & Crafts
Members
Stephen Ramsay
Catherine McCandless
Stephen Kamp
Max Henry
James Lynn
Former members
Pat Sayers
Susan Beckett
Stephen Durand
Liam O' Neill

Young Galaxy are a Canadian indie pop/dream pop band, whose members are Stephen Ramsay (vocals/guitar) and Catherine McCandless (vocals/keyboards), Max Henry (keyboards/backup instruments/vocals) , Stephen Kamp (bass), and Liam O'Neill (drums)

Young Galaxy formed in Vancouver as duo including Stephen Ramsay and Catherine McCandless. Through that summer of 2005 and the spring of 2006 they recorded with appearances and contributions of friends at Jace Lasek’s Breakglass Studio. Their sound has been described as similar to the bands Slowdive, Galaxie 500 and Luna as well as Pink Floyd and Spiritualized.[1] The band has toured in Canada, The United states and Europe, opening for The Album Leaf, The Frames, Peter, Bjorn and John, Death Cab For Cutie. They later moved to Montreal, where they recorded their self-titled debut. The album was released on April 24, 2007.

Since the release of their debut album in 2007, they have expanded to include Stephen Kamp and multi-instrumentalist Max Henry. They recorded their sophomore album Invisible Republic in Montreal at Hotel2Tango studio with Radwan Moumneh engineering (A Silver Mt. Zion, Pas Chic Chic) and at Breakglass Studios with Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes engineering.

Their hit song Come and See was featured in Alexander Keith's commercial in summer of 2009.

Invisible Republic was released on August 25, 2009 through Fontana North Distribution. It was mixed by Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Snow Patrol) in Glasgow, Scotland.

Discography

References

  1. ^ Liss, Sarah (2007-01-18). "Galaxy quest". Now magazine. http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-01-18/music_feature.php. Retrieved 2007-02-05. 

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