Youth & Young Manhood released

The Followills’ debut album, Youth & Young Manhood , was released in the UK in July 2003 and in the United States that August. The album was recorded between Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and Shangri-La Studios in Malibu , California. It was produced by Angelo Petraglia and Ethan Johns . According to Rolling Stone magazine, the band’s retro- chic look and blend of Southern boogie and gritty garage rock inspired comparisons to both Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Strokes . The album became a sensation in the UK and Ireland, where NME declared it “one of the best debut albums of the last 10 years” and The Guardian described the band as “the kind of authentic, hairy rebels the Rolling Stones longed to be”. The album still failed to make any significant impact in the US, where reviews were generally lukewarm and the modern rock audience was generally uninterested. In the United States, Youth and Young Manhood sold only 100,000 copies, compared with the 750,000 copies it moved abroad.