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Australian folk punk band. Born out of the ashes of well-known celtic punk band Between The Wars, Jay Wars & the Howard Youth released their first album, "Carry Me Home" in 2014 to excellent reviews and international radio play. The album included the single, "Give Me A Drink!", for which the band released a video on YouTube, which has had nearly 15,000 views in five months. Pretty much straight after the release of "Carry Me Home", the band started writing a new album, and engineered, produced and mastered the album, "Love in the Time of Fear", all by themselves in the lounge room of drummer Dan Scalpelli. The result is a cohesive, fast-paced, almost concept record telling stories about the various types of love and fear found in life. From the brash and seething political number, "Pyne in the Closet" (about politician Christopher Pyne) and the exceptionally fast "Let Me Start Again..." to the slower "Ballad of 1846" and "Alive!", the band cover many themes and emotions over the