Screamo band Youth Novel return with first album in 5 years (listen)

Michigan screamo band Youth Novel returned from hiatus with their excellent self-titled album in 2021, but then members turned their focus towards Heavenly Blue (now known as Heaven’s Blinding Hue), who released their debut album We Have the Answer in 2024. But now, Youth Novel are back once again with their new album I Went Through This Experience Smiling. Picking right up where the band left off, it’s an intense listen, as pulverizingly heavy as it is deeply beautiful.

The band’s own description of the album is this: “Poison pools in the head. It leaks and drifts through the veins. Youth Novel’s first album in 5 years is I Went Through This Experience Smiling, 12 tracks of screamo inspired by the classics of the genre; an observation into the modern human psyche and the final, most permanent form of self-sabotage.”

Check it out:

I Went Through This Experience Smiling by Youth Novel