Go Farther in Lightness is the second studio album by Australian alternative rock band Gang of Youths, released on 18 August 2017 by Mosy Recordings.

Written entirely by frontman David Le'aupepe, its lyrics focus on "the human experience in all its bleakness and triumph",[1] detailing a mission of finding hope and love amidst personal struggles like loss.

In a 2017 interview with The Music, Gang of Youths frontman David Le'aupepe discussed the state of his mental health after releasing their debut studio album, The Positions (2015).

"[2] While talking to Richard Kingsmill on Triple J, he added that he "went through a huge year-long writer’s block" and wrote a majority of the songs on Go Farther in Lightness during constant touring in the year prior.

[8] Reflecting on his influences, particularly Bruce Springsteen, the frontman discussed how the opening track "Fear and Trembling" is his "ham-fisted tribute to 'Thunder Road', which is very thinly veiled".

[9] The second interlude, "Le symbolique", marks the record's half-way point beginning with an "elegant and moving instrumental", before "suddenly the tempo accelerates, and the energy picks up" to transition into "Let Me Down Easy".

"Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane" was "born out of some big, screwed-up, recurring dream" about "losing something you love",[8] and "Persevere" follows Le'aupepe "having a conversation with the friend who just lost a baby".

"[13] In contrast to the "cinematic" orchestration of "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows", Ben Yung of The Revue wrote that the song "reveals [Le'aupepe's] everyday struggles of loneliness, depression, and anxiety".

[11] Despite these themes, some outlets noted the life-affirming messages and "grand epiphanies" of "The Heart is a Muscle" and album closer "Say Yes to Life", "a track of hope, glory and absolute-total-victory".

[9][14] Al Newstead of Triple J concluded that with these tracks, Le'aupepe is "no longer roaring and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, but singing like the weight of his emotional baggage is starting to lift".

[20] A week before the full album release, the fifth single "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows" was issued on 9 August, alongside a music video featuring Le'aupepe as a convict escaping through fields in the early morning.

[32][33] The band performed for six nights at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and eight at the Forum in Melbourne, breaking both venue records for most sold-out shows on a single tour.

In a five-star review for Rolling Stone Australia, Jaymz Clements wrote that it "poetically explores the human experience in all its bleakness and triumph, confusion and clarity, heartbreak and joyousness", calling the record "a remarkable odyssey of an album that'll engulf you".

[1] Dylan Marshall of The AU Review called it a "triumph for hope and life",[36] with Rachel Scarsbrook of Renowned for Sound similarly stating the album "doesn’t fall into the trap of becoming too dark and pitiful, instead there is positivity radiating out of its every fibre".

[37] A reviewer for Triple J called Go Farther in Lightness "a stirring collection of music that places Gang of Youths another rank higher in the echelons of Aussie rock bands".