JENNY OWEN YOUNGS RELEASES “IT’S LATER THAN YOU THINK” THIRD SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM AVALANCHE OUT SEPTEMBER 22 VIA YEP ROC RECORDS

CO-WRITTEN WITH THE ANTLERS’ PETER SILBERMAN, NEW SINGLE IS A WRY WARNING ABOUT TIME SLIPPING THROUGH OUR SCROLLING FINGERS – WITH A SNAPPY HOOK, CRISP MELODY AND LAID BACK VOCALS

Renowned singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs releases her third single “It’s Later Than You Think,” from her forthcoming, highly-anticipated album Avalanche set for release on September 22 via Yep Roc Records. The new single exemplifies Youngs’ ability to serve up deep emotional examinations and universal truths with a clever melody and tender vocals.

Brooklyn Vegan premiered “It’s Later Than You Think” this morning, calling it a “warm folk track with gentle harmonies.” The song was co-written with Peter Silberman of The Antlers, who also joins Youngs on a performance video released today and filmed in Saugerties, NY. The track is a wry observation about the precious nature of time, and a gentle warning not to squander it, scrolling through social media and being handcuffed to our phones.

Says Youngs, “When we got together to write, I was feeling particularly preoccupied with my relationship to my phone, social media, and the internet in general. It was the summer of 2021 and the world still felt a ways off from returning to any semblance of social normalcy. I had also moved away from the city where most of my friends lived to a quiet coastal town on the opposite side of the country. My phone felt like my tether to life as I had known it. But scrolling is a slippery slope and it’s easy to overdo it; it’s engineered that way. This song is a reminder to myself that my time on this planet is finite and precious, and that I want to spend it wisely on what matters. (Most of the time.)”

Avalanche as a body of work is filled with glimmers and glimpses of devastation and darkness giving way to light and love. “There’s a good deal of heartbreak and disappointment in this music,” Youngs explains, “but it ultimately gives way to excitement and promise, to the incredible, immeasurable bliss of falling in love and finding yourself again. These songs travel the whole emotional spectrum”.

Written with a series of friends including S. Carey, Madi Diaz, The Antlers’ Peter Silberman, Christian Lee Hutson, featuring drumming from The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick and recorded with producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, The Hold Steady, Cassandra Jenkins, Josh Ritter), the collection is an achingly beautiful exploration of loss, resilience, and growth from an artist who’s experienced more than her fair share of each in recent years. The songs are deceptively serene here, layering Youngs’ infectious pop sensibilities atop lush, dreamy arrangements that often belie the swift emotional currents lurking underneath. The result is the most raw and arresting release of Youngs’ remarkable career, a brutally honest, deeply vulnerable work of self-reflection that learns to make peace with the past as it transforms doubt and grief into hope and transcendence.

That kind of range has been Youngs’ calling card from the very start. Born and raised in rural New Jersey, she fell in love with The Beatles at an early age before eventually finding her way to The Cranberries and Elliott Smith in high school. Her self-released debut, Batten The Hatches, landed a high-profile sync in the Showtime series Weeds and led to a deal with Nettwerk Records, which re-released the album along with her 2009 follow-up, Transmitter Failure. Widespread acclaim and dates with the likes of Regina Spektor, Ingrid Michaelson, Frank Turner, and Aimee Mann followed, but by the time Youngs released her third album, 2012’s An Unwavering Band Of Light, she was ready for a change of pace, moving to LA to focus on writing for other artists and for film and TV.

In 2016, Youngs co-wrote Pitbull’s “Bad Man,” which debuted at the 58^th annual Grammy Awards; in 2017, she co-wrote Shungudzo’s “Come On Back,” which was featured in the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack; and in 2018, she co-wrote Panic! At The Disco’s smash hit “High Hopes,” which is now seven-times platinum and broke the record for most weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart. Along the way, Youngs also launched Buffering The Vampire Slayer, an episode-by-episode podcast devoted to Buffy The Vampire Slayer that attracted more than 160,000 monthly listeners and led to a book deal with St. Martin’s Press. Youngs recently launched a new series with her podcasting partner/ex-wife called The eX-Files and has a narrative fiction podcast due out next year, as well.

US TOUR DATES 2023

9/19 – 9/23 Americanafest Nashville, TN

10/12 – Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY *

10/13 – Miracle Theatre – Washington, D.C. *

10/14 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA *

10/19 – SPACE – Evanston, IL *

11/15 – Moroccan Lounge – Los Angeles, CA *

11/16 – Cafe Du Nord – San Francisco, CA *

11/17 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR *

11/18 – Fremont Abbey – Seattle, WA *

3/1 – 3/ 8 Cayamo Cruise

* With support from John Mark Nelson