Photo: Malwina Witkowska

The Young Mothers, the project led by Norwegian born bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, are back with their third album, six years on from the release of Morose. Entitled Better If You Let It, the new album arrives on February 21st through Sonic Trasmissions, and unlike previous records, is a group effort, with all members sharing writing credits.

Alongside the album announcement, the six-piece unveiled today the title track, which serves as an enthralling taste. Of the track, trumpet player Jawwaad Taylor comments:

“Better if you let if is a song that came together in the typical way TYM’s work. It is a song that pulls from the things going on in the world at large and the culture the band has developed over many years of working together. The song aims to take the listener on a journey that begins in the way it ends.
Jason Jackson brought the band a whimsical ballad that the band immediately embraced. Later Jawwad sampled and deconstructed Jason’s original tune turning it into what you the listener hears in its final form.
It is both a tribute to a very special time when the Great American song book was being formed and a time when producers were digging through what had become old records that where being repurposed to create brand new songs for the world to enjoy. Hence, the song beginning where it ends. With Jason Jackson’s original tune and morphing into it’s final form.
Begins where it ends.
We THE YOUNG MOTHERS hope this aids you in your listening pleasure!!”

‘Better If You Let It’ is a song that strikes upon first listen. Here it is.