Richard Youngs
where next and that?
my pal sent me beyond the valley of the ultrahits and some of it's pretty fucking lovely but looking at wiki it seems to be atypically poppy and one of hundreds of releases that i have no frame of reference for navigating through. i'd prefer the ones with songs and that... i've not much patience for minimalist stuff. can anyone give me a run down of the stages in his career?
cheers
the tube screamy guitar is so wonderfully out of place on this record, makes me grin something rotten.
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ultrahits is by far the poppiest thing he's done and pretty different from most of his discography but last year's Under Stellar Stream is more listener friendly than usual
I saw him support Ali Roberts a few years ago
and liked a lot of it but he sung a 12-minute acapella song which constituted without doubt the longest 47 hours of my life
Sapphie
Advent
Life On A Stream
we've put out a bunch of RY's records
some descriptions and mp3s here:
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=youngsrichard
Sapphie
the only one i'm familiar with is "the naive shaman"
pretty good.
thanks all
and that and that and that... gonna pick up sapphie & under stellar stream i reckon.
I think Sapphie must be
one of the most beautiful records I have ever heard.
coppieceface, when you've had chance to listen to Sapphie and USS
be cool if you could report back here with yr thoughts
by the by, Stewart Lee wrote a great Buried Treasure piece on May in MOJO, i'd definitely add that one to the list of RY's 'accessible' discs:
http://jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG043
codpieceface, even
here a link for SL's MOJO piece, from 2007:
http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/press/writtenformoney/2007-feb-richardyoungs-mojo.htm
why not try
"pulse of the rooster" w/ simon wickham-smith on vhf?
it's like a mutant homemade 80s pop record + massively unsung
but, apart from that curveball, i'd second "sapphie" as good next step, even if it is really "minimalist stuff", albeit disguised as acoustic singer-songwriter fare
if you like twinkling tuneful (vocal-free) Cluster-y things, the "relayer" CD by youngsbower is pretty unstoppable, as is "like a neuron" by richard on dekorder
yeah, Pulse Of The Rooster is a great shout
for the rock, check out Electric Lotus w/Alex Neilson
My girlfriedn gave me The Native Shaman
for christmas, I really like it.
On spotify I've been listening to USS so I'm looking to get that soon as well. Sapphie sounds a good way for the more minimal stuff, I'm really liking Alex Nielsons, he seems to be everywhere these days, stuff at the moment so I'll trry check out Electric Lotus as well.
tpyso, gah
Richard Youngs at Luminaire - Sun 25th July
Richard Youngs (2 sets 'Greatest Hits' and Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits)
Neil Campbell/Dylan Nyoukis/Spider Stacy
Sunday 25 July
The Luminaire
7.30pm, £8
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/81446
http://www.milesofsmiles.co.uk/
This isn't sold out yet? My god
what is wrong with People?
Ultrahits reissue info/mp3
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG177
tickets still available for Luminaire show
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/81446
tonight!
got the new album Amaranthine in the post today.
it's very good. Broughton-esque in the layered folky guitar, repeated mantras + bustling percussion but more abstract than that perhaps, perhaps he even invented that sound but perhaps we'll never know
put core to the brave on for the first time since the week i got it
remembered it as a big outlier but once i got my head into it there's those same short cyclical phrases and floating, barely there melodies you'd expect from him. i've been absolutely blasting my ears with it, sounds superb at really high volume. reminds me of that phantomsmaher record a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50wWnl_LE0