On their new record, ‘Angel In Real Time,’ Gang of Youths' frontman David Le'aupepe took a maximalist approach to the release, "... it needed to be offensive to taste making sensibilities. It needed to be a complete violation of all those things. It needed to not be a downtempo miserable, sad, sodden record that everyone expects. There's this weird idea that somehow you can only convey true emotion with sad quiet intimacies and I resent that.”