Young Knives dip back into 2020 highlight Barbarians with Jenny Haniver video


Young Knives by Ian Wallman

Young Knives by Ian Wallman




Young Knives returned with Barbarians in September.

An under-the-radar highlight of the year, Young Knives have dipped back into their Barbarians album this week with an animated video for Jenny Haniver, crafted by Iman Mahdy.

“The song itself is about perceptions of beauty,” Henry Dartnall explains. “The female lead in the song is in one way, only there because it came from the name of the strange mixed-up creatures that appeared in Victorian side shows.”

“But in another way the female lead is central to the concept of the song because we are two men who have grown up during a time when the attitude towards women has been continually challenged and discussed.”

Barbarians just missed out on Live4ever’s Best Of 2020 series, an album about ‘exploding self-engineered myths, bored of our vanity and plugging right into the counter-evolutionary snarl of our instincts’, according to our review.


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