Claude says:Gang of Youths' third album was written over four years following frontman David Le'aupepe's father's death, weaving mourning and family identity discovery in the Pacific Islands through vocal and instrumental samples from Indigenous musicians collected by explorer David Fanshawe — a significant departure from their previous record. It debuted at number one in Australia and won Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards, praised by many critics as their best work though some found issue with the length and density. You picked it up in early 2024, right when it was two years old, and after a quiet stretch you've been living with it hard since mid-2025 — "you in everything" and "tend the garden" lead the way, but you keep returning to "Spirit Boy" and the piano ballad that tells his father's secret Samoan past.