Hey Young Believer is a three-piece indie pop-rock band from San Francisco, best described as a mix of Cat Power and Metric with a bit of early No Doubt thrown in.  We play live guitar, drums and keys coupled with sampled bass lines, synths and percussion.  We play regular shows in San Francisco and have previously toured the Pacific Northwest.  We're pleased to announce the completion of our first full-length album, "Invisible by Day," now available on iTunes and at Amazon.com.

We record and produce our own music, so with the exception of some studio drum tracking, the new album was recorded entirely in a bedroom.  It's amazing what you can do with direct inputs, a nice microphone and some sound isolation foam.  The ending of "Spark" is a nice example of the joy of unlimited studio time.

Hey Young Believer got started when Lilly Wolfson and Alex Neuhausen met at Stanford in spring of 2006. Nick Shilling, the drummer, joined that winter.  Our name comes from the Rancid song "Black Lung Fever" from their album "Life Won't Wait."  It's a phrase that could preface all sorts of questions, especially about modern orthodoxies. What does it mean to believe in something and should we?  Can we trust ideologies or is everything really just being sold to us?  Are the kids alright?