Richard Youngs – Belief LP

£18.00

Belief LP – Richard Youngs LP from Vinyl Records London

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ldquothe postpunknbspautodidactrsquosnbsppostpunk autodidactrdquo ndash The WireYoungs recorded the album in his hometown, Glasgow, as a cycle of chamber songs, a 21 st century update of the solo album ndash one musician playing all the instruments in a small oneroom set up. The album itself began with Youngs collecting his own percussion samples from handclaps, a battered old cymbal, an extractor fan vent, FM radio interference, cassette hiss and a kick from ldquoa disastrously lsquo80s sounding drum machinerdquo. These were then used to programme beats, played back at randomly determined tempos in durations mapped to randomly chosen major label songs.The original plan was to sendnbspBeliefnbspout to the lsquomajorrsquo labels and collect the rejection letters as an art project. But, as soon as the album had been mixed, Daniel OrsquoSullivannbspGrumblingnbspFur, This Is Not This Heat played the songs to Tim Burgess and before the mail art project could take off, Belief became Richardrsquos debutnbspfor Tim Burgessrsquo OnbspGenesis Recordings label.Tim Burgess ldquoRichardrsquos album came to me via his friend Daniel OrsquoSullivan. He gave me some of Richardrsquos songs and they completely bowled me over. I immediately asked if O Genesis could release it and he put me in touch with Richard. Belief is sublime gnostic pop and is the soundtrack to why I wanted to be able to release albums on our label. O Genesis had recently released Danielrsquos record VELD and itrsquos always difficult to know what an artist thinks of our label they might just be being polite when they say good things.If someone recommends a friend or a band that is dear to them, then that is a perfect sign for me.rdquo Richard Youngs has released around 140 albums and his collaborations include Makoto Kawabata Acid Mothers Temple, Jandek, Oren Ambarchi, Alasdair Roberts, Alastair Galbraith and Heatsick. Prolific, multigenre and impossible to categorise, Stewart Lee has said of himnbspldquoImaginenbspRichard Youngs as the junior member of a cabal of prolific andnbsppuritanicalnbspEnglish musicianmystics, including The Fallrsquos Mark E Smith,nbspVannbspder Graaf Generatorrsquos Peter Hammill, Martin Carthy and ThenbspClangersrsquonbspcomposer Vernon Elliot, and still his nature will elude you.rdquo Richard Youngs LP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £18

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