ARTIST · INDIE / ROCK

Young Knives

Gangly funk and barbed wit—every chorus feels like college-radio in-joke gone anthem.

Indie rock
Post-punk revival

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Voices of Animals and Men captured mid-2000s NME energy with economic arrangements.

Superabundance and later work leaned into conceptual albums without losing dance impulse.

Brother-led line-ups kept creative continuity across hiatus years.

Clean streaming keeps staccato mutes, snare dry crack, and vocal sneer detail.

The Young Knives, Henry and Thomas Dartnall and Oliver Askew, played in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Voices of Animals and Men (2006) included She’s Attracted To and Here Comes the Rumour Mill, with an arch, English-sounding style.

Superabundance (2008) and Ornaments from the Silver Age (2011) followed. The group has a following in the UK.

Interesting facts about Young Knives

01 English indie rock band formed in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire in 2002.
02 Voices of Animals and Men (2006) was nominated for the Mercury Prize.
03 Supported major UK tours during the mid-2000s indie-rock boom on festival and club circuits.
04 Henry and Thomas Dartnall are brothers.
05 Voices of Animals and Men was nominated for the Mercury Prize.
06 The band formed in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 2002.