Name: Autumn Response
Brand: Richard Youngs

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Bonus disc: No

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jag121cd

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-11-12

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

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656605212128

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Richard Youngs

Genre GB

Folk

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Richard Youngs is a British musician known for his prolific and diverse output. Based in Glasgow, he has been actively creating music since the early 1990s. Youngs is skilled in playing various instruments, with the guitar being his most common choice. However, he also experiments with other instruments such as the shakuhachi, accordion, theremin, dulcimer, and even a motorway bridge. He has released numerous solo albums and collaborated with many artists throughout his career.

For many years, Youngs rarely performed live due to extreme stage fright. However, in recent years he has overcome this fear and started performing more regularly. His recent shows have predominantly featured his vocals after attending a laptop concert that inspired him to sing.

Youngs' musical style falls within the realm of experimental music. His unique sound can be compared to artists like *Loren Connors*, *Sir Richard Bishop*, *Six Organs Of Admittance*, and *Jackie O Motherfucker*. With an extensive discography and a reputation for pushing boundaries, Richard Youngs continues to captivate audiences with his innovative approach to music.

'autumn response' is a spartan folk-pop record filled with tinder-box intimacies, composed of some of the shortest songs ever recorded by richard youngs. the simplest form of trickery comes from richard youngs' restrained use of an acoustic guitar, bringing it back to youngs basics. twenty-six seconds into 'i need the light', the first track off the album, the listener is confronted with the pivotal element of the record, the drawing line between the hardcore youngs purists and fairweather fans: the track, like others on the record, features youngs' double-tracked voice splitting in two - as one overlaid performance veers away from the other. while he has never personally been comfortable with the moniker 'king of the progressive minimalists' - which is often used beside his name by critics - this gesture warrants such a title as the confident inclusion of such an effect grants it legitimacy. youngs' voices slipping away from one another is on par with other intense representations of singularity such as donald judd and malevich's suprematist composition: 'white on white'. pop is a gesture, a stance, a pose. 'autumn response' is a singer-songwriter album, as youngs' fingers slip over the steel strings with little feet and whispery toes, his gently prophetic songs evoke roger waters and the folk phase play is sure to appeal to fans of animal collective's 'sung tongs'. on jag jaguwar.

Autumn Response

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