Youth Group are at the forefront of the exciting new era in Australian alternative music. They have the pop of the Posies, the articulate desire of the Red House Painsters and Death Cab for Cuite, the rock of the Pixies, and the angst of Bright Eyes. SKELETON JAR is the band's second album and the first to be released in the US. Left field, yet highly emotive lyrics navigate the way across varied landscapes of pop, folk, and indie rock terrain. The beauty of the album is the every note is well-placed, every strum thought through, economic in the precision of the pop-coated anger.