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Young Gun Silver Fox Always Knew Yacht Rock Was Cool
The U.K.-based duo Young Gun Silver Fox continue to reach for the heights of 1970s pop perfection on its new album Pleasure
It’s not surprising, then, that when Young Gun Silver Fox started writing their debut album, 2015’s West End Coast, they felt that “there wasn’t a band that was reclaiming that music as their own,” Lee says. Platts is more reserved — though not on record, where his voice is remarkably pliant, capable of head-turning, Jackson-indebted leaps (“Moonshine”) and meticulously soothing multi-part harmonies that reach for Crosby, Stills and Nash (“Sierra Nights”). With each of their past albums, Young Gun Silver Fox aimed to “change the palette,” as Platts puts it — clearing room for more horns on Canyons, injecting more acoustic guitar into Shangri-La.
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