The Many Eras of Richard Youngs

Source: Bandcamp Daily.

Youngs’s music is impressive for its sheer variety as well as its scope. He’s made minimalist drone, pop music, prog rock, country, and jungle. He’s made an a cappella album and a kazoo album and several by playing guitar with his feet. “I think I’ve always done what the hell I wanted to do, and if there is a theme [across my work], it’s that,” he tells me from his home in Glasgow. (Though originally from Cambridge, he’s now spent the better part of his life in the Scottish city.) “I’m pretty convinced that you could play one album, and then play another, and someone might not hear the link at all. But the link is that, at the time, it gripped me, and I needed to do it.”