Richard Youngs
Songs List
Mojo (Publisher): 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] country album of slide guitar, sweet harmonies and heartworn ballads from a landscape on the edge of the unsayable..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Mountain of Doom
- 2.Misjudgement
- 3.Spin Me Endless in the Universe
- 4.Summer Through My Mind
- 5.The Future Is So Different Today
- 6.Story of Jhon
- 7.Binary Stars Over Venice
- 8.Goodbye Oslo Rose
Uncut: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[O]n ELECTRIC LOTUS, Youngs manhandles an effects-drenched guitar that spits daggers of non-linear melody like broken glass."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Teeth
- 2.Kickin Thru Glass
- 3.Mute Action
- 4.Electric Lotus
Record Collector (magazine): 4 stars out of 5 -- "Here, Youngs' voice, deeper and more assured than ever, imparts poetic incantations with a Scottish lilt that can't help but evoke a gauzy romanticism..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Broke Up By Night
- 2.All Day Monday And Tuesday
- 3.Cluster To A Star
- 4.Arise Arise
- 5.My Mind Is In Garlands
- 6.The Bells Of Spring
Spin: "Evoking the moonlit tumbleweed vistas of an acid Western, AMPLIFYING HOST is unsettling but rewarding."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Furrows Again
- 2.Too Strong For the Power
- 3.Tessellations
- 4.Holding Onto the Sea
- 5.A Hole In the Earth
- 6.This is the Music
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Fountain of Light
- 2.Blossom
- 3.Sky Is Upon You
- 4.Red Cloud Singular
The Wire: "[A] moody soul and his acoustic guitar, and nine songs about air and horses and light and weather....[A] classic in the making..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.I Need the Light
- 2.Before We Were Here
- 3.Low Bay of Sky
- 4.One Hundred Stranded Horses
- 5.Paths in the City
- 6.Tinsel Matrix
- 7.No Edge
- 8.I Am the Weather
- 9.Something Like Air
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Advent, for piano, voice, oboe & electric guitar: Part 1
- 2.Advent, for piano, voice, oboe & electric guitar: Part 2
- 3.Advent, for piano, voice, oboe & electric guitar: Part 3
The Wire: "...You can hear Youngs warming to the pleasures and capabilities of his own voice, which is a pleasure itself..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Neon Winter
- 2.Bloom of All
- 3.Trees That Fall
- 4.Wynding Hills of Maine
- 5.Gilding
- 6.Wynd Time Wynd
Uncut: 3 stars out of 5 - "...Youngs' voice, fragile yet tough, is the perfect warp to the hypnotic weft of Eastern drones, circular riffs and raga-like meditations..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Life on the Stream
- 2.Oh My Stars
- 3.Fire Horse Rising
- 4.Halifax Amore
- 5.Machaut's Dream
Record Collector (magazine): 4 stars out of 5 -- "Here, Youngs' voice, deeper and more assured than ever, imparts poetic incantations with a Scottish lilt that can't help but evoke a gauzy romanticism..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Broke Up By Night
- 2.All Day Monday and Tuesday
- 3.Cluster To a Star
- 4.Arise Arise
- 5.My Mind is In Garlands
- 6.The Bells of Spring
Alternative Press: 3 out of 5 - "...His tunes burn with a quiet intensity..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Warriors
- 2.The World Is Silence in Your Head
- 3.Only Haligonian
Mojo (Publisher): 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he hypnotic combination of hymn-like song and gravity-defying sound makes for some supreme reality-altering listening throughout."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Life on a Beam
- 2.Illumined Land
- 3.Sonar in My Soul
- 4.Once It Was Autumn
- 5.Summer's Edge II
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Ein Klein
- 2.Klein Nein
- 3.Klein Ein
- 4.Nein Klein
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Chamber
- 2.Music of the Lost Sun
- 3.Noatak Beacon
- 4.Mountain
- 5.Big Aeroplanes
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.2002
- 2.2003
- 3.2004
- 4.2005
- 5.2006
- MatchRichard Youngs
- 74%Six Organs of Admittance
- 48%The Dead C
- 43%Sun City Girls
- 39%Alasdair Roberts
- 35%Bill Fay
- 33%Bill Callahan
- 33%Jim O'Rourke
- 33%Robert Wyatt
- 29%Califone
- 27%Vic Chesnutt
- 26%Amen Dunes
- 26%Arthur Russell
- 26%Scott Walker
- 25%Nico
- 25%The Sunburned Hand of the Man