CRUSH OF SOULS - Captive Youth LP

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CRUSH OF SOULS
Captive Youth LP (2026)

A1. Taken From Your Home
A2. Dying to Stay Young
A3. Sudden Death
A4. Palace
A5. Cemetery Days
B1. Torture Games
B2. Domination (featuring Sade Sanchez)
B3. Mask
B4. Body & Leather

Precisely one year after Lézire, Crush of Souls is back with his third full-length album.
The musical endeavour of Charles Rowell - active in the indie/punk global scene since 2008 with bands like Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, Issue - is just like its creator: always cooking up something. Relentlessly.
Now, as it was perceivable by the trajectory undertaken by after his previous LP, Captive Youth leaves goth rock and dark folk aside and head swiftly towards some old school 80’s EBM & 90's Industrial dance vibe. After all, any album exploring themes of dystopia, politics and sexuality requires a strong rhythm.
So how could this new chapter not mention seminal synth-pop and body music classics such as Technique by New Order, Belief by Nitzer Ebb, Towards Thee Infinite Beat by Psychic TV and Pressure Points by Anne Clark? Forever a displaced soul, Charles' album number three feels like a revision of Crush Of Souls and also a reanimation of his captive youth spent moving from town to town. The energy of the wandering worker poet. Warehouse basslines, artillery fire backbeats. Romance and melancholy wrapped in barbed wire.
All this and more oozes from nine new tracks that inevitably deliver that blurry sexy urban vibe that's become the project's trademark.

Features collabo hit single Domination with Sade Sanchez from L.A. Witch.
Back cover illustration by Zudesnikk.
Mixed & mastered by Maurizio Baggio.

Captive Youth is out 19 June 2026 on pink vinyl LP ltd to 300 and digital.