Home of the Strange LP

Album Details

Los Angeles quintet Young the Giant continue to brave new sonic landscapes with their wildly adventurous third album Home of the Strange. On this new release, the band explores their expansive musicianship with boldly eclectic arrangements anchored by a keen melodic presence. To direct the band's continued evolution, they collaborated with producer Alex Salibian (Elle King, Mikky Ekko) and executive producer Jeff Bhaskar, 2016 Grammy winner for Producer of the Year.

Thematically, Home of the Strange builds from the opening track "Amerika," a song inspired by Franz Kafka's posthumously published and unfinished novel of the same name. The members of Young the Giant are all the sons of immigrants, with a majority of the band being first generation Americans. They can relate to Kafka's story of Karl, a 16-year-old who flees Germany under uncertain circumstances. He becomes a stowaway on a ship headed to NY and the book tells the tale of a bizarre coming of age story of a boy caught between the cultures of two worlds, struggling to belong.