Reptile Youth is a Copenhagen-based band formed in 2009 by Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and Esben Valløe, initially called "Reptile & Retard". In their music, the duo uses stylistic devices from a wide variety of musical genres such as indie, pop, rock, punk or electro to create an innovative sound: "From electro beats through punk/rock guitar screeching to psychedelic sixties soul." To this day, they have released two studio albums, Reptile Youth (2012) and Rivers That Run for a Sea That Is Gone (2014).