# Multi-Cultural Indie Band Anesthetic Youth’s “Fortune and Fame”

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2020/07/multi-cultural-indie-band-anesthetic-youths-fortune-and-fame/
- Published: 2020-07-10T22:41:03-04:00
- Author: Kat Nip Carver

Anesthetic Youth is a four-piece alternative indie rock band based in Ho Chi Min
City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam, of all places. The band caught our attention with
the 2020 single and video, “Fortune and Fame.”

The song is a blend of emotional lyrics and experimental alt-rock jamming, powered
by muscular guitar riffs, precise and driving rhythms, and a fiery front-woman leading
the way.

Formed in 2017, the band is a multi-cultural unit: vocalist Giand Kieu is Vietnamese;
bassist Jesus Carrillo is Peruvian; drummer Luis Zapiola is American and guitarist
Angelo Silva is Portuguese.

“Giand and I worked on it on a very cheap acoustic guitar which I still use to write
our songs since they always sound a lot better on the electric guitar, and by the
time we jammed the song with the rest of the band, the lyrics and the guitar parts
were finished.”

Anesthetic Youth formed in 2017 as a metal/hardcore band. After several line-up 
changes, however, they evolved into more of an experimental rock band. Two years
ago they received high praise for their debut single, “Self Portrait” which was 
followed by the band’s debut EP, _Dystopia_, in February 2019.

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