Cure For Youth are the Los Angeles post-punk quartet of Scott Savarie (vocals, bass), Catarina Teles (synth, vocals), Connor McKenna (guitar), and Nicolas Sturz (drums). Formed in 2024 by Savarie and Teles, the band built itself out across two EPs that took early-80s post-punk and ran it through the propulsion of people who came up playing hardcore — locked grooves, melodic hooks delivered without apology, tempos that know what to do with themselves.

The lineage runs through Joy Division at its sharpest, Ceremony and The Men at their most disciplined — bands that figured out how to slow down without losing tension and how to speed up without losing the melody. Cure For Youth work the same territory in a register that feels specific to their own city and moment.

Their debut LP, "Synthetic World" (à La Carte Records, 2026), is the most focused articulation of that combination yet. Recorded and mixed by Alex Jacobelli at Sunsick Studios in LA and mastered by Andrew Oswald, the record sits in the present tense — modern life as a problem of attention, loss as the thing that arrives without permission, the political weight any honest record made now has to carry without flattening into commentary.