Richard Youngs 'Dissident' Vinyl LP - 180g
Richard Youngs 'Dissident' Vinyl LP - 180g
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Strong follow up to 2018's 'Belief '(O'Genesis) & 'Endless Futures' (Glass Redux RSD release) Richard Youngs is also a member of Amor) 'Dissident is a hallucination of a legendary lost Samizdat-style recording of the legendary lost Richard Youngs Band.
It's not clear to me that it is against anything in particular, and as such it is not literally dissident. In fact, I'm a little lost how or why it is dissident, save for being informed by the imagined provisional recordings of pre-Glasnost protest.
Perhaps the wordless scratch vocals are voicing dissent, but I remember having fun. So much so, I couldn't stop myself from fleshing out the rough nylon guitar songs to a full band arrangement, recorded in multiple spaces' - R. Youngs Imagine Richard Youngs as the junior member of a cabal of prolific and puritanical English musician-mystics, including The Fall's Mark E Smith, Van der Graaf Generator's Peter Hammill, Martin Carthy and The Clangers composer Vernon Elliot, and still his nature will elude you Stewart Lee, Sunday Times.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Filling My Mind With Stars
2. Just A Monotone
3. Lonely Suburban Eyes
4. North Sea Song
5. (Searching For A) Dead Language
Side B:
1. Paradise Begun
2. Assymetry
3. Unseeing
4. I Would Rather Fall Into Your Head
5. We Are Going Outside
6. High Low Vertigo
7. Caravans
It's not clear to me that it is against anything in particular, and as such it is not literally dissident. In fact, I'm a little lost how or why it is dissident, save for being informed by the imagined provisional recordings of pre-Glasnost protest.
Perhaps the wordless scratch vocals are voicing dissent, but I remember having fun. So much so, I couldn't stop myself from fleshing out the rough nylon guitar songs to a full band arrangement, recorded in multiple spaces' - R. Youngs Imagine Richard Youngs as the junior member of a cabal of prolific and puritanical English musician-mystics, including The Fall's Mark E Smith, Van der Graaf Generator's Peter Hammill, Martin Carthy and The Clangers composer Vernon Elliot, and still his nature will elude you Stewart Lee, Sunday Times.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Filling My Mind With Stars
2. Just A Monotone
3. Lonely Suburban Eyes
4. North Sea Song
5. (Searching For A) Dead Language
Side B:
1. Paradise Begun
2. Assymetry
3. Unseeing
4. I Would Rather Fall Into Your Head
5. We Are Going Outside
6. High Low Vertigo
7. Caravans