richard youngs ,what's his best stuff?

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I was doing an interview with the brilliant musician giuseppe ielasi (fringes records) and ,talking of what we thought about experimental music in the nineties ,he cited youngs as one or the 4/5 more relevant musicians of our times . I already had"advent" , a record I bought after reading about it in "blow up magazine .yesterday I got "making paper" . both records are nice and relaxing but there must be somethig more than that . is there anyone who can help me?

francsco, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Try 'Lake', the first alb he recorded with Simon Wickham-Smith. Good mixture of noisy drone-rock and lo-fi experimental stuff. The 'Radio' albs with Brian Lavelle also make for fine 'horrible noise' listening. But to be honest, 'Advent' is my fave, so if yr not that sent by it, perhaps he's not for you?

Andrew L, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i strongly recommend "festival" (table of the elements, ca. '95) which is him on his own, mostly, and lush and beautiful without falling over into corn the way i found his prog folk opus "ilk" to do.

(agree the 2lp is the coolest - a benchmark of '90s free form freak-out - but probably real hard to come by?)

possible insight: i was playing someone the track "mendle" from the mr fox lp "the gypsy" (transatlantic, ca.'70) in the weekend and they were like "oh, so this is where richard youngs gets it from!"

jon, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Lake' has been reissued on CD, btw...

Andrew L, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

So does it make me lame that I'm only really taken with his last two records? Is loving Sapphie and Making Paper but not getting excited about anything else pretty much like loving the new Sting album but not liking the Police?

Nitsuh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oddly enough, I just interviewed Simon Wickham-Smith this Monday. Coincedence? ;-)

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm curious about that where will your interview come out?

francesco, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

_sapphie_ is pretty good, but i get the impression it's along the same lines as _making paper_. sapphie is just guitar and voice, VERY LONG SONGS. about a DEAD DOG. so bear that in mind.

the stuff with wickham-smith is all over the place. the latest one (LAMMERGEIER) is electronic-sounding and isn't really compelling, ditto for _veil_. _lake_, _red and blue bear_, _giladji_, and _kretinmuzak_ all explore abstraction in varying degrees and in varying lengths; i like _red and blue bear_, which is a children's story with accompanying music.

everyone hates their _pulse of the rooster_ cd, btw, but i think it's great drone/psych/pop come at from a completely fucked up angle. beautiful music that could go on forever, vocals that annoy a lot of people. worth hearing. i think you can sample a few of their releases at vhf records.

your null fame, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one year passes...
i was just about to start a richard youngs thread but instead: revive!

he has a new record out, it's called "airs of the ear." has anyone heard it?

my favorite records by him are "festival" (by a long shot) and then "may" and "sapphie." i believe "making paper" has that song "warriors" which i've never liked much.

what's odd is that when i mention r.y. to the one or two acquaintances of mine that know his music, they roll their eyes as if to say, 'oh that toss..."

does anyone have his vegan cookbook?

Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 06:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

May is beautiful. I hate everything with Simon-Wickham Young and all that glass harmonica crap - SO new age.

Neil Campbell and Stewart Walden's duo cassettes are better for pure drone-age tho

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 06:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

OK does Richard make a big mistake around 2:40 into "Trees That Fall" or is that intentional? Actually I can never decide if the jerky guitar playing in this song in general is intentional or not. He also rushes the ending and then just--stops. The next three songs are gorgeous though so maybe he was just impatient.

Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

i thought it was an error - lending to the overall humanism blah blah blah. it works tho

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

BTW "May" = best-ever sdtk to driving slowly through rural michigan.

Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

also, youngsbower (youngs + matt bower) release on VHF = candy coated noise deliciousness. tinkly!

i forgot to mention that youngs' _advent_ will leave your carpet smoking.

your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

When Richard takes a big deep breath toward the beginning of "Wynd Time Wynd," does anyone else think it sounds like a drummer brushing a snare? I keep thinking a rhythm section is about to kick in.

Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 7 March 2003 04:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...
Just got Airs of the Ear.... Hmm, on the one hand he's bridging the gap between his minimalist-folk records and his textured experimental records. I think I like it, though for some reason his vocals are irritating me a bit.

amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

The last tune (the long one), "Machaut's Dream," quotes from at least two pieces by Guillame de Machaut, but I'll have to pull out my Machaut records to recall exactly which ones. I find this tune very hit and miss. Young's trademark Zen-like repetition actually seems taken too far here, but the final stretch is lovely. Almost psychedelic.

amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

can be quite a freakout when you get into. i only heard making paper and its fine really.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like the recordings with (even though i'm not a fan at all of his larger work) makato kawabata... very electro-acoustic blurry tone strum which is my cup of tea.

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...
though for some reason his vocals are irritating me a bit.

hm that was an understatement.

i figured out which machaut piece "machaut's dream" quotes from (it's available on t he "art of courtly love" collection) but now i forgot the name. it's in medieval french anyway.

amateur!!st, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
Revive! 'cos I've made it a New Year's resolution to properly tackle his stuff and would welcome further mullings w/ arms akimbo. All I have is Ceaucescu, which I think is absolutely bloody marvellous.

(You still looking for that cookbook, amateurist? there was recently a copy in the student fleamarket here...)

NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Well I think this is going rather swimmingly. Twiglets anyone?

NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
vhf website informs that a new ilk album "canticle" is on its way.

new ilk album! it's only been a decade. richard youngs in proper prog clogs. i bet i'm the only person excited by this though.

jwd, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
Browsing the net for mentions of myself (as you do) I just found this page. I first met Richard Youngs in February 1985, he was in a band called Omming For Woks with Andrew Trussler, and they had a label called Jabberwok. My band The Strolling Ones recorded a few pieces in Richard's home-studio set-up, for their "Great Difficult Music Swindle" compilation. I played live with Richard a few times over the next few years, notably with the a band ( we were never actually called THE A BAND by the way), as well as being the least musical quarter of the neil/richard/simon/stewart album "Durian Durian" (if you have it, that's me singing and drumming badly at the end of one side).
And my cassettes with Neil Campbell were not pure dronage thankyou for very much!

Stewart Keith, Monday, 2 May 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

oops! not "for very much", but "very much".

And in my opinion Richard Youngs has always been better with other people than just solo.

Stewart Keith, Monday, 2 May 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link

there's supposed to be a follow-up release to the collab. w/ matthew bower at some point

Amon (eman), Monday, 2 May 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...
The Naive Shaman = awesome. Has this been discussed elsewhere, or is this album being slept on in spite of (or perhaps because of) the feature in The Wire? It strikes me as an accessible, fully realized synthesis of arrhythmic folk. Has he hit Rock Bottom?

blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Ilk's Canticle = awesome

the don juan he, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
ok, i just heard 'the naive shaman' for the first time, and was totally blown away. what else do i need to get by him?

toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i should hear this. honestly i had thought the law of diminishing returns was starting to apply to him, but i'll take this enthusiasm as a sign that i was wrong.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link

even though it's NOTHING like 'The Naive Shamam' (I don't think anything else in his discog is), I highly recommend the collab w/ Makato Kawabata. it's simple but very effective: keyboards, acoustic guitar, angelic vocals. gorgeous.

a, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
I think the recently released collaboration with Tirath Singh Nirmala (HP Cycle) is fantastic. The second half of side 2, with the looped violin drone and analog synth washes, might be my favorite thing he's been involved in. Another favorite that I don't see mentioned is "Knish" with Simon Wickham-Smith--just baby grand piano and electric guitar, but it really hits me in the bliss-out/guitar fuzz zone in my brains. The piano is often very lethargic and pointilist, but always working towards a greater resolution. There are intense rhythmic parts where the piano builds to some fantastic guitar runs.

be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I've lost touch with a lot of his recent work, which I regret.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

My roommate was getting promos of everything on jagjaguar and vhf for a while... sweet times.

be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, did you pick up the one with Galbraith & Neilson? I think it's pretty good, but was hoping for a more audible Galbraith presence. I liked the first side a lot better than the second, initially, but lately I've been warming up the noize-haze percussion jams.

be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i need to hear that new jammy. he was soooooo awesome at atp.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll let you know when we get that back in stock, hp stencilcraft. or you can come over and listen to it and we can get stoned. either way.

be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, did you pick up the one with Galbraith & Neilson?

Ah no -- and since I love Galbraith, I must investigate, even if he's a limited presence.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

dude you came here to plug an album you don't even have in stock any more?!?!? ;_;

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"plug"
it'll be back in stock by the weekend dood.

be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

put on hold for infinity. maybe i'll even be able to buy it this weekend.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

having money is hard just after the first!!!

be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

saw him and alex neilson (and campbell kneale, also on gtr, for one number) play a fantastic noize duo blowout earlier this month - youngs was playing electric w/ an ebow, making a fantastically gritty sound

Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

knish, I think was recorded live on WKCR, when they came to america and were staying with my friends Liz and Matt who did the world and "new" music shows at columbia. Matt released it on his Ignovimous label, which he used to share with Kyle from Lovid. I remember I was in NY that summer working a crappy 3-11 job at a print shop and listened to it live. I think that was the same time they played the second Table of the Elements festival which was at the knitting factory. The first one was the year before in Ga. I think? That was the first show Tony Conrad played in 20 years or so, behind a sheet w/ Jim O'Rourke. Like 30 people were there, it seemed, for Tony Conrad's first show in years, Simon and Richard and Zeena Parkins. Maybe somebody else? Maybe Gastr played?

Anyway, my favorite Richard Youngs has always been the first song on Festival. I fell out for a while but got back at some point and got really into Sapphie, one of the most gorgeous solo records I've ever heard, really really beautiful.

I was so into their stuff in college. My boss at the record store got the vinyl in, releases on Forced Exposure and stuff like Durian Durian. I'd just never heard anything like that before. Then we got in Kretinmuzak and I was so confused. What was this stuff? It sounded like 2 guys, a casio and a cardboard box making electronic choral music from Mars. I started collecting all that stuff, and remember having really high hopes for the Richard Youngs/Matthew Bower record on VHF but not liking it as much as I hoped, and I think it made my entire record collection smell funny(er) because of the inks or paints on it.

And echoing above, I dont' know if everybody hates Pulse of the Rooster, but I think it's awesome, more accessible, electronic art rock, definitely Simon and Richard at their most Joy Division! If you don't know what I mean, check out By the Sea...

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

what did he play at atp? anyone see? hstencil?

nik bozic (nikjasdf), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

his set at ATP was half shakuhachi improvisations, half a cappella folksy mantras. I remember that he did 'summer's end' and 'life on a beam', but I'm not sure what else. he was magnificent though. one of the festival highlights for me. however, he totally divided the crowd. quite a few people were taking the piss, while others sat enraptured.

saw him and alex neilson (and campbell kneale, also on gtr, for one number) play a fantastic noize duo blowout earlier this month

aye, this was good, especially the two really sludgy pieces in the middle. although it dragged a bit towards the end.

m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i thot it was more 1/4 shakuhachi, 3/4 voice, but i might've missed part of it. either way, it was totally fucking awesome. his voice is incredible.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

well, he alternated the voice and shakuhachi pieces, but the vocal ones were much longer.

it was good indeed. I went for a slash after his set and every bloke at the urinal was singing 'summer's end'. how touching.

m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

My fave record of his is probably "River Through Howling Sky", as far as how cohesive it is, the spookiness of it in general through the wind chimes/fuzz-wah setup used pretty much all the way through, and how the black and blurred packaging "looks" like the music in a great way..."The Naive Shaman"'s definitely amazing too, though--him and Ben Vida/Bird Show are my two favourite loose-structured heavy digital solo-home-recording singers (if that's an appropriate way to sum things up) these days--I love how playful but intense their songs are...

As far as one single, simple song of his goes, though, you can't go wrong with "The World Is Silence In Your Head" from "Making Paper", a great Feldman-y piano ditty along the lines of Grubbs/Gastr.

Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I just bought 'making paper' this week. it's not as immediate as the other records I've heard, but still rather fantastic. I love the way he can create really profound psychic unease with just a piano and his voice, yet at the same time it's beautiful and soporific.

youngs is a totally unique artist. I've been familiar with him for a year or so, and I'm no closer to truly understanding what he's doing. there are so many facets to his music, but they're all reflecting the same image...if that makes sense. it's very early. pre-coffee early.

m the g (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link

For context, that unreleased tracks soundcloud "release" is as-picked by Neil Campbell from a pile of unreleased R. Youngs stuff he has lying around. It's a fun listen for sure.

Ward, that is very cool and decidedly weird.

grandavis, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mBRk3WCx8

am0n, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link

gorgeous

first is the worst (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link

six months pass...

RICHARD YOUNGS - A TOWER HAMLETS TRILOGY
Three different performances in three different places

...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

No Fans Compendium 7xCD box set on VHF in April!

http://www.vhfrecords.com/news/2015/2/19/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-available-april-6-2015

NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link

that sounds great, and VHF releases are usually affordable.

sleeve, Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

descriptions of the 7 CD's contents and some sounds here
in case you (like me) were wondering if you need 7 CDs/$45 worth of hard-to-find Richard Youngs music
http://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-set-vhf137

groundless round (La Lechera), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link

~~sold~~

adam, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link

i'd like to pay to download this. hope they port it to emusic.

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

New disco thing, although I'm not sure he had any involvement other than singing on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpE8Aqb32U

heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 23 February 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5HQ4yFYHI

👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link

AMON.

ian, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link

Disco things got Paul from franz ferd on it. Not sure who else.

dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

Finally got a copy of A Glasgow Wassail this summer and it's on now for the first time. Sounding lovely and a bit spooking / Christmas Eve BBC 2. Them vibes.

I'd also recommend to those interested his recent collaboration with Daniel O'Sullivan - brings out the best in both of them.

kraudive, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

All Hands Around the Moment from last year is getting to me at the moment. If Tim Buckley had made an album for ECM it might've sounded a bit like this.

mahb, Monday, 1 February 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link

Also, RY's pal/peer Eric Chenaux just released a nice extended-song semi-cover/tribute as part of the Constellation Corona Borealis series:
https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/track/3-stars-on-mountain-of-doom

Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Monday, 1 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link

thanks for highlighting this, i totally missed it last year (to be honest i've been out of contact with his stuff for quite a while) and it's really great

Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

Did we need a "reimagining" of Sapphie by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble + friends? Probably not. Is it worth a listen? Sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmNczXQSak

in a bar, under the (seandalai), Sunday, 18 July 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

spin me endless in the universe

what an incredible song

z_tbd, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:02 (five months ago) link

i can't seem to find lyrics, so i'm putting it on genius. i'm absolutely the worst at guessing at lyrics, so if anyone has corrections please let me know here or out-genius me on https://genius.com/Richard-youngs-spin-me-endless-in-the-universe-lyrics

if I were a superhero
superhero with superpowers
my superpower it would be
it would be honesty

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

all of us are industries
industries one of factories [?]
factories manufacturing
manufacturing some kind of truth

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

wish I were I wish I was [?]
as rugged I could be [?]
former is now [?][
never is unconditional [?]

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

if I were the strongest man
strongest man in the world
I would [?]
[?] out of time and space

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

imagine somehow that we are
that we are undefeatable
undefeatable in what we do
undefeatable in love

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

[?] they are falling down
falling down on the factories
still there manufacturing
manufacturing some kind of truth

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

[?] they are falling down
[?] and can you feel
can you feel my superpower
superpower of honesty

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

look my love at the stars [?]
[?] stars are such freedom
for my love yes my love
my love is unconditional

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

[?]
when i stay inside
at the world get out of here
somewhere out of time and space

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

imagine somehow that we are
that we are undefeatable
undefeatable in what we do
undefeatable in love

spin me endless in the universe
spin me endless in the universe

z_tbd, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:34 (five months ago) link

i had to clarify some richard youngs lyrics once -- i went to the man himself on twitter but idk if he's on there anymore. it was "oh reality" from beyond the valley of ultrahits.

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:37 (five months ago) link

can't help you with the lyrics, but i love this man nd his muic.

ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:13 (five months ago) link

I could never really find my entry point into this guy’s solo work but I absolutely love the duo record he did with the guy from Acid Mothers Temple

Slim is an Alien, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:18 (five months ago) link

Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits is so good, other than that I would actually start with the early stuff, the collabs with Wickham-Smith

I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 17 May 2024 20:21 (five months ago) link

His first, Advent is still my favourite. One of my favourite records of all time.

Sapphie is lovely, also Autumn Response.

kraudive, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:29 (five months ago) link

I picked up “All hands around the moment” recently, ray the recommendation of a guy sleeve and I play d&d with and it’s GORGEOUS. That said I find the earlier stuff typically less interesting than when he started experimenting with song BUT I’ve hardly heard all of it. Prolific being the understatement.

ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:13 (five months ago) link

I like beating stars w/ Alex Nelson a lot too

ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:32 (five months ago) link

Neilson*

ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:33 (five months ago) link

I stopped being able to keep up and only have dipped in and out of the catalog. Nothing but admiration for the breadth and depth of his talent and experimentation. Didn't he do like 6 volumes of records where he played the guitar with his feet?

Got into him while I was in college and was really into the Skullflower/VHF records axis of noisy stuff and wait a minute, I think I posted my thoughts already upthread...17 years ago! Jesus. I stand by this statement "Then we got in Kretinmuzak and I was so confused. What was this stuff? It sounded like 2 guys, a casio and a cardboard box making electronic choral music from Mars."

Looking at my digital catalog, I have 21 Richard Youngs albums,1 with Matthew Bower, 1 with Raul Refree, 1 with Stephen Todd, 1 with Tirath Singh Nirmala, and 11 with Simon Wickham-Smith!

dan selzer, Saturday, 18 May 2024 00:47 (five months ago) link

it's a 3 way collab but belsayer time is the one i always go back to

no lime tangier, Saturday, 18 May 2024 06:30 (five months ago) link

Sapphie and All Hands… are the albums I keep coming back to - I’ve dabbled around the catalogue (never heard Ultrahits though) but it gets hard to keep track

that's that me: a Viking (seandalai), Saturday, 18 May 2024 19:04 (five months ago) link

Hey z_tbd, i had a relisten to that song and this is what i got...

former is now [?]
never is unconditional [?]

for my love, yes my love
my love is unconditional

I would [?]
[?] out of time and space

where would this world be
somewhere out of time and space

[?] they are falling down

hearing that as "poor slaves they are fallen down"?

look my love at the stars [?]
[?] stars are such freedom

I hear stones instead of stars

[?]
when i stay inside
at the world get out of here

let us close [?] door
let us stay inside
let the world get out of here

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 18 May 2024 22:37 (five months ago) link

also if you ever get the chance to see him perform, do not miss it! :)

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 18 May 2024 22:38 (five months ago) link

I often/almost always have to catch my bearings/recalibrate whenever I decide to get back into Richard Youngs, and I almost always do so via relistening to River Through Howling Sky (with Naive Shaman a close second)

Shout-out to Foot Guitar and Simon Wickham-Smith and all the almost-endless permutations/variations, but despite all the amputations, IMHO you can put on River Through Howling Sky and as Lou somehow predicted, it is almost certainly almost always almost alright

Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Sunday, 19 May 2024 00:30 (five months ago) link

(P.S. Holy crap that album came out over 20 years ago now)

Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Sunday, 19 May 2024 00:32 (five months ago) link

really nice to hear all of the different takes here, lots of stuff I need to check out

I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 19 May 2024 00:34 (five months ago) link

bower / youngs relayer is fantastic, bower dipping into his sunroof “pretty” side matches richard really well

agree, beslayer time is also fantastic. galbraith meets young is a true meeting of 90s / 00s underground idiosyncrasy

sknybrg, Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:03 (five months ago) link

I didn't get this the first time I heard it, when I was in college, and now it gives me big feelings. I love "May," great record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlSKnt2FDGA

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:50 (five months ago) link

?!?! dang I am a total Galbraith fiend and never knew abt this one! xp

I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:51 (five months ago) link

Like others, tho, I need to get into his catalog more. I do love most everything I have heard.

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:51 (five months ago) link

agree, beslayer time is also fantastic. galbraith meets young is a true meeting of 90s / 00s underground idiosyncrasy

decade and a half ago i saw galbraith open for youngs with the changeover being the both of them singing the title track together, magic!

no lime tangier, Sunday, 19 May 2024 04:42 (five months ago) link

xposts didn't see all these posts and forgot to bookmark it! thanks nickb, i updated the lyrics with your suggestions, appreciate it!

z_tbd, Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:30 (five months ago) link

five months pass...

OK time for a binge - I got cheap vinyl copies of Dissident, Amplifying Host, and Under Stellar Stream, plus the collab with Raul Refree (All Hands Around The Moment)

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 24 October 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link

I ordered the recent CD with Howard Stelzer, which was advertised as a special deal of $7 pp anywhere in the world. I live in the UK, so i added a few extra dollars to cover postage, but when it showed up the postage sticker showed that shipping alone was like $40! My modest additional donation certainly didn't cover the expense, but is that really the right cost? I've seen comments about shipping to the UK being prohibitively expensive, but this was just a CD. It was wrapped a little more padded than necessary imo but i feel terrible now. Excellent cd anyway. Will buy on bandcamp too as thank you.

ionjusit (P. Flick), Thursday, 24 October 2024 22:00 (one week ago) link

Dissident sounding great, very mellow, singer/songwriter with piano, bass, drums, understated, lovely

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 24 October 2024 22:05 (one week ago) link

and yeah that Raul Refree comp is incredible, one of his best as noted upthread

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 24 October 2024 22:05 (one week ago) link

comp collab

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 24 October 2024 22:05 (one week ago) link

I find it very weird that he has a minimal bandcamp presence, very little under his own name, the two Jagjaguwar LPs I got aren't digital, etc.

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 24 October 2024 22:22 (one week ago) link

That is because he almost always deletes his Bandcamp-only releases after a certain period--I think if someone has bought them it is still accessible as a private BC listing, but that accounts for there currently only being 10 public No Fans releases at https://nofansrecords.bandcamp.com/

Where did Boo Berry go (Craig D.), Friday, 25 October 2024 02:22 (one week ago) link

ah thanks!

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Friday, 25 October 2024 14:30 (one week ago) link


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