Photo by Bill Adams

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Amanda Crosby
Bass/Vocals

Rachel Sauter
Guitar/Vocals

Sarah Mannix
Drums/Vocals

After kicking around in other bands for years, Amanda Crosby, Sarah Mannix, and Rachel Sauter formed Younger in 2014 as an experiment. What could happen if songs were written as a complete collaboration? Their original aim was to geek out about weird song structures and challenging harmonic intervals without being a real band at all. Inspired by their excellent public school music education and deep love of art rock, they accidentally wrote their first self-titled album. A rhythmically tight, raucous sound had emerged, dressed with three-part harmonies.

Y3K, Younger’s third full-length, was written during the pandemic when days blurred together and the future felt suspended. The songs move through themes of isolation and the slow-motion feeling of an approaching apocalypse, but they’re also packed with bright hooks, sharp humor, and flashes of teenage abandon. It’s music for dancing in your bedroom while the world burns.