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Tasmanian singer/songwriter J Robert Youngtown has unleashed his new EP today, a four-track collection of fuzzed-out, psychedelic garage rockers that finds a fresh take on an immortal sound. A longtime admirer of Aussie rock heroes You Am I, Youngtown reached out to their incendiary lead guitarist Davey Lane to produce the EP. Finding a shared set of influences from the obvious classics to arcane and perverse musical rarities, Youngtown and Davey clicked immediately and soon they decamped to Davey’s kitted out home studio. “James had a bunch of tunes at the ready,” Davey recalls. “I had some drums and wires in a garage. We went in armed with Melbourne’s finest beat drummer (powerhouse stickman Brett Wolfie) and after two days we had some songs that dipped a toe into a Daviesian past and another toe into space. I’m thrilled with the result.” “Working with Davey was a two-for-one deal,” says Youngtown. “I got one of my favorite guitarists and I also got a kindred spirit musically.