Sometimes it's quite difficult to explain why a particular group is special, and why you love their music so much. With Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, I've had no problems. Even halfway through their opening track, 'The Pitch And Yaw of Satellites' the evidence is pretty clear. There's no other band that can create music as emotionally uplifting as theirs. Final track '...Spooks the Horse' is another example, and at the concluding chord, it seems that all is right in the world.

But it's not only that. It's the journeys that each track takes you, wandering through movements of music. In the hands of some other bands any attempt to paste together bits of different styles would never work (well it didn't quite for early YMSS either!), but in the skills that YMSS have acquired you trust in them as they lead you from thrashy bits to gentle, thick guitar lines. There's so much going on, that it feels like you're surrounded by this comforting blanket of noise.

Many bands of their genre can be accused of being quite repetitive, no not YMSS though. Yes, there are the same themes running through most of them, the stop-start nature of the songs, the thrashy bits and the gentle melodic lines, but you can also recognise each track as being a different (or a few) songs.

Their 'songs' are such accomplished pieces, it's strange to think that they only popped up in Oxford less than two years ago. If we were to give them a couple more years, where would they end up? On Saturn probably (propelled under the power of their own music).

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