Youth is wasted on the old. Revivalry are hanging onto theirs.

Youth is wasted on the young, according to people who have already wasted theirs.

It’s the sort of observation that sounds profound after six pints but rather less convincing when you’re staring down the barrel of a mortgage.

Revivalry, meanwhile, are still young enough to regard adulthood as a vaguely threatening rumour.

While their 2025 Modern Nostalgia EP captured a band growing up and already looking back at the best years of their lives, Static Youth takes a more confrontational approach.

Youth is something to be enjoyed. Something to be held onto. And Revivalry aren’t giving it up without a fight.

Still in their teens, they’ve already navigated three line-ups. This EP marks the final contribution from guitarist Ben, who has put his involvement with the band on hold to pursue university.

The personnel may change, but Revivalry keep coming out fighting.

At its heart, Static Youth is perhaps a product of its environment.

Cleethorpes, their hometown, is a faded Victorian seaside resort, much like so many others along England’s eastern coastline. Places built for the purpose of enjoyment for two weeks a year. For the remaining fifty, they exist largely as a memory.

There’s something gloriously contradictory about growing up in a town where everybody else comes to escape.

For the locals, escape is rather the point.

But it’s escape with a purpose, and an understanding that your hometown will always be there, anchoring your outlook and colouring your worldview, however far you eventually travel.

Static Youth represents a step forward from its predecessor. The songs are darker, more intense, but still possess the youthful chaos that infects every corner of Revivalry’s musical universe.

The strange characters remain. People trapped in worlds of their own making, their insecurities, failings and occasional triumphs laid bare for everybody to see.

And probably filmed for TikTok.

Live favourite Isaac Dobson is here, a peculiar tale of somebody spending their entire time at Glastonbury drunk and desperately searching for their missing friends.

The guitars arrive with all the subtlety of a brick through a conservatory window, while the drums are attacked with the sort of reckless abandon that anyone familiar with Revivalry’s live performances will recognise immediately.

If you’ve seen them, you’ll know exactly what I mean.

Isaac is a bass boy, apparently.

Whatever that means.

I’ve often wondered, watching Revivalry career through the song on stage, whether Isaac knew he’d been immortalised in this particular fashion.

Turns out he’s the band’s producer.

Well, that explains that.

Worth It is another song guaranteed to whip their live audiences into a frenzy. All Nirvana-sized riffs and youthful rebellion, it asks the rather important question of whether anything is really worth dying for.

Probably not.

But the song presses its point home, demanding that you work out what really matters in life and cling to it with all your teenage might.

Newer tracks such as Get Into the Groove – not the Madonna song, although that would certainly be interesting – return to the familiar territory of weekend abandon.

The working week grinds to a halt. Friday night arrives. The possibilities seem endless. It’s teenage kicks right through the night.

And then, almost before they’ve begun, the weekend’s excesses disappear into the rear-view mirror. Half-remembered encounters, questionable decisions and embarrassing Instagram posts, all carefully catalogued and ready to be repeated the following Saturday in a slightly different order.

It’s a cycle that feels endless when you’re young.

Until suddenly it isn’t.

And perhaps that’s the underlying tension running through Static Youth.

Five tracks from a band beginning to understand that their teenage years won’t last forever, but determined to hold onto the freedom, recklessness and glorious possibilities of youth for as long as they can.

The future can wait.

There’s still a weekend to get through.

Static Youth is out now on streaming channels and available to buy on lovely red vinyl. Revivalry are just starting out on their first UK tour. Go see them. You will not regret it.