Nee, dit is geen beknopte samenvatting van mijn eerdere bericht , in augustus vorig jaar. Richard Youngs is écht een artiest die meerdere platen per jaar kan uitbrengen en daarnaast telkens weer iets bijzonders weet te creëren, bijzonder genoeg om er opnieuw over te typen. Core To The Brave en Amaranthine zijn mijn laatste aanwinsten met Youngs' naam erop. Core To The Brave komt uit bij Root Strata en valt vrijwel direct op door zijn agressiviteit. [...]
Richard Youngs - Amaranthine By Tom Bolton If anyone's channelling England's dreaming, it's Richard Youngs with his baffling, absorbing fragments that seem simultaneously alien and a fundamental part of us. The debate about Youngs always seems to get hung up on trying to describe and categorise: "Is this album more 'avant-garde' than the last?" or "Is he still experimental, or has he sold out?" This is definitely missing the point. His music is highly original, and seems to exist to defy and destroy categories. Nor do definitions help [...]
You know what they never address on the Survivor season finales? What happens to the digestive systems of the last three contestants after 39 days of near-starvation, when they get that final breakfast delivered to them. Because I know if I lived off of only rice and fruit for over a month, the first time [...]
Sorry about the delay getting this post up, but today has been the day of bureaucracy. Magnificent, steaming bureaucracy. Anyhow, apart from the momentous occasion of my birthday, there's actually quite a bit going on in Edinburgh this week. If you're really quick, and really keen you can nip down to the Liquid Room tonight and catch Wild Beasts . Their latest album may be a little tepid, despite the frantic fluffing from Drowned in Sound, but Two Dancers was incredible and they are a cracking live band. Also, Yuck are [...]
A new installment of experimental rock, avant garde pop, freak folk, and electronic music (all free & legal). If you like the music, please check out the artists. Click Here to download ZIP file with all tracks [mp3], track listing, and cover art. 01 Boats - T.V. Scientist [mp3] (from Cannonballs, Cannonballs ) 02 Richard Swift - Whitman [mp3] (from Walt Wolfman ) 03 Zun Zun Equi - Fandango Fresh [mp3] (from Katang ) [...]
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I've been encountering a variety of really strange music lately. While Vondelpark's weird electro vibe had me grooving, I still have no idea what the hell the point of the 47 minute single track album by Nicholas Szczepanik had - and I've run into a similar album just a mere few reviews later. Richard Youngs, a British musician whose genre is best describe as experimental folktronica, has put out countless albums and played all over the world. Why or how? I really don't know, because if his latest solo effort, "Amplifying Host," sounds anything like his other [...]
Het blijft een lastig te volgen muzikant, die Richard Youngs . Maar voor een verzamelaar als ik zorgt hij ook voor een heerlijke uitdaging. Drie verschillende releases binnen een maand tijd is namelijk geen uitzondering, zo is afgelopen maand gebleken. Eerder dit jaar prees ik op site al Atlas Of Hearts en een split 10" met Annelies Monseré . Jagjaguwar is een beetje het thuislabel geworden van Youngs, waarop we minstens één keer per jaar een release mogen [...]
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Tweet Buy the album on Amazon - Vinyl | MP3 They say never judge a book by its cover, and I assume this rule also applies to albums, so I usually never do. A blind (or maybe not so blind) judgement I do indulge in, though, is judging a record by its label. In this case, Jagjaguwar , the label most notably known [...]
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Trying to describe Richard Youngs is a difficult task. The Glaswegian has released too many albums to list here and it would be fair to assume that with such a large back catalogue that finding words to describe his music succinctly would be no trouble. Not so I'm afraid. The multi-instrumentalist has released records that could be described as experimental, minimal, folk, avant-garde and almost everything in-between. When his latest offering Amplifying Host landed on my doormat I had no idea what to expect, which is an unusual and refreshing change in today's spoiler heavy internet [...]
New stuff this week includes Beirut, Say Hi, Mates of State, Cymbals Eat Guitars , and St. Vincent : Beirut - East Harlem [mp3] (from The Rip Tide ) Say Hi - Dots On Maps [mp3] (from Um, Uh Oh ) Mates of State - Maracas [mp3] (from Mountaintops , out Sept. 13) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Rifle Eyesight (Proper Name) [mp3] (from Lenses Alien , out August 30) [...]
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It's another slightly meager Summer week of new releases, and since kids are in school, They Might Be Giants are able to sneak a non-kids album out -- not that it's fooled my kids at all. Elsewhere there's the latest from Portugal. The Man, Crystal Antlers , Big Talk , Shonen Knife , Theophilius London , Jenny O. , Willie Evans Jr. and the return of 311 . Playlist: New Releases 07.19.11 [...]
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Maximum respect to Youngs in following his heart here, but in truth this is not an easy listen. Youngs embraces an ethic that respects only the worrying of lines in the sand that good taste tiptoes around in pursuit of originality. By which we mean that 'Amplifying Host' stamps all over the genre divisions between acoustic, folk, acid and pyche without a care. On first listening it resembles Comus, or perhaps at the melodic maudlin of Espers. Ultimately this music is darker of eye and more hollow of cheek. Oppressively restrained, and rarely allowing any development, this is music at [...]
Glasgow-based Richard Youngs is a ridiculously prolific artist with about 736 recordings to his name (I jest slightly, but he's probably not that far off), either solo or with a series of collaborators. Essentially you could pin him down to being a purveyor of minimalist folk-blues - a kindred spirit with the drone of Jandek, however in his time making records he's also turned his hand to techno, pop, laptop experimentalism and finally, deciding to overcome his fear of performing, adding vocals to his work. Now that's what you call facing your fears head-on. [...]
Grapefruit Records is a record club founded by Simon Joyner and Ben Goldberg, and it aims to release exclusive and limited vinyl LPs by varying artists that the pair deem worthy (ie they dig their music). It makes for a varied and interesting line-up, the latest being one Richard Youngs (others this year include Lambchop and L. Eugene Methe). With just four releases a year - all received through a subscription service - it seems like a great way to hear exclusive music from various, forward-thinking musicians. Head here to check it out: Grapefruit Records
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