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.
Youngs turns his hand once more, on what I think is genuinely his 136th album, to a threateningly exact folk minimalism, his wracked vocal astral projecting into a subspace void of tranquilised acoustic guitar arpeggios and truncated electric blues licks. Don’t let Youngs be the kind of genius that’s discovered after the event.
He’s here, right now, and he’s improving with age.
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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John Robins, Comedian
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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World Without End, Twitter
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk