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ARTIST
YOUNGS, RICHARD
TITLE
Varispeed Etudes
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
GOLDEN LAB
CATALOG #
ROWF 064LP
ROWF 064LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/15/2016
140-gram LP in heavyweight UV-coated sleeve. Limited edition of 300.
Varispeed Etudes
was conceived by revered, quixotic, Glasgow-based avant-garde populist
Richard Youngs
very much as an analog "record of two halves" in the spirit of
David Bowie
's
Low
(1977) and
Heaven 17
's
Penthouse and Pavement
(1981). Side A showcases Youngs's bent for electronic experimentation and those inimitable, hauntingly reedy, standard English vocal tones that have placed him squarely alongside a peer group of the UK's vocalizing weirdos that includes
Robert Wyatt
,
Ivor Cutler
, and
Charles Hayward
. Side B strips away the vocals and replaces the electronics with a series of shorter, dissonant, slow-moving, acoustic clatterbang soundscapes. The whole thing is "held together by the joy of varispeed pitch control -- major delight of reel-to-reel recording" and it's as rich, conceptually oblique, throwaway, but important as anything in Youngs's catalog.
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