If the tight, boisterous rock of Go West Young Man speaks to the attention with which frontman, Damin Suarez, gives each tune, it belies GWYM’s messy roots. This is not unusual when it comes to Rock and Roll. It is said that Damin was ins…

If the tight, boisterous rock of Go West Young Man speaks to the attention with which frontman, Damin Suarez, gives each tune, it belies GWYM’s messy roots. This is not unusual when it comes to Rock and Roll. It is said that Damin was instrumental in forming the hot, sweaty garage noise that he and his brother began, into the indie pop sound of L.A.’s now-defunct The Fictions. If The Fictions displayed the struggle between precision and velocity—between craft and volume, then perhaps it can be said that the struggle has ended with GWYM; as it turns out, everybody’s a winner. With Mathew Nakamura on drums and Joe Edwards on guitar, GWYM generate a sound in which there’s always something to listen for, and always something to move to. Taking tighter reigns on lyrics than he did on his Fictions-era solo recordings as Damin Adell, Suarez’s lyrical irony cuts through, as his influences seep their way up and out of the noise. Taking their name, and philosophy, from a John B.L. Soule quote, Go West Young Man demands that we all pack up and move towards that unmitigated future.