Richard Youngs: reviews, essentials and odd beauties

Richard Youngs

Musician

Forlisteners into avant-folk, experimental and lo‑fi singer‑songwriters; fans of robert wyatt, jandek, and john martyn.
4 Reviews 0 Definitions 2 Charts

The Profile

Scottish multi‑instrumentalist based in Glasgow, active since the early 1990s. Renowned for a prolific, intimate blend of avant‑folk, minimalism and experimental electronics, often centered on voice and guitar. His work includes releases on Jagjaguwar and collaborations noted in the reviews.

Active since the early 1990s; Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist; blends songwriting and avant-garde approaches; noted falsetto; releases include May (2002, Jagjaguwar); collaborations mentioned include Makoto Kawabata and Jandek.

Four lyrical reviews celebrate Richard Youngs’ prolific, Glasgow-rooted avant-folk. The Naive Shaman spotlights voice against sparse electronics; Autumn Response reduces to voice, guitar and delay for intimate folk mantras. May (2002, Jagjaguwar) is singled out as accessible yet experimental. River Through Howling Sky is spare and trance-like, threading blues ghosts and cosmic drones.

Notable Quotes

❝ Spare, skeletal, essential, present, touching.

❝ Youngs’ art is pure expressive freedom, in which analog and digital intertwine with simplicity, tact, and elegance, travelling along the tracks imposed by the feelings and emotions of the moment.

❝ I highly recommend this fabulous album to those who want to find themselves in the metropolitan jungle, or to those who want to think for 40 minutes about the little big things of the world, which might be hiding in the lawn of your house or in a word from a friend not listened to carefully.