ARTIST · INDIE / ROCK

Youth Group

Dream-pop delay and coastal melancholy—optimism sung like a eulogy to adolescence.

Indie rock
Alternative rock

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Casino Twang documented trans-Pacific indie interchange with Sydney humidity.

Forever Young reinterpretation introduced the band to wider Australian radio.

Toby Martin songwriting favours character studies over sloganeering.

High-bitrate streams preserve jangle transparency, tambourine dust, and vocal mid lift.

Youth Group from Sydney, with Toby Martin as lead vocalist, covered Alphaville’s Forever Young in a slow, melancholy style that was used in the TV show The O.C. and became a hit in Australia. Casino Twang (2006) was the album.

Skeleton Jar (2005) and Casino Twang (2006) were their best-known albums, and the group later split.

Interesting facts about Youth Group

01 Australian indie rock band formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1998.
02 Casino Twang (2006) and follow-on releases built college-radio audiences before broader hits.
03 Forever Young (2006 single) reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart in Australia.
04 Forever Young is a cover of the Alphaville song.
05 Toby Martin is the lead vocalist.