ARTiST: Richard Youngs
ALBUM: Autumn Defense
BiTRATE: 159kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Jagjaguwar
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 50.23 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 41min 28sec total
RiP DATE: 2007-10-25
STORE DATE: 2007-11-06
Track List:
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01. I Need The Light 4:00
02. Before We Were Here 1:31
03. Low Bay of Sky 4:17
04. One Hundred Stranded Horses 5:08
05. Paths In The City 2:54
06. Tinsel Matrix 2:49
07. No Edge 1:31
08. I Am The Weather 2:40
09. Something Like Air 16:38
Release Notes:
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Autumn Response is a spartan folk-"pop" record filled with tinder-box
intimacies, composed of some of the shortest songs ever recorded by Richard
Youngs. The simplest form of trickery comes from Richard Youngs' restrained use
of an acoustic guitar, bringing it back to Youngs basics. Twenty-six seconds
into "I Need the Light", the first track off the album, the listener is
confronted with the pivotal element of the record, the drawing line between the
hardcore Youngs purists and fairweather fans: the track, like others on the
record, features Youngs' double-tracked voice splitting in two - as one overlaid
performance veers away from the other. While I have never personally been
comfortable with the moniker "King of the Progressive Minimalists" - which is
often used beside his name by critics - this gesture warrants such a title as
the confident inclusion of such an effect grants it legitimacy. Youngs' voices
slipping away from one another is on par with other intense representations of
singularity such as Donald Judd and Malevich's Suprematist Composition: White on
White. Pop is a gesture, a stance, a pose.
Autumn Response is a singer-songwriter album, as Youngs' fingers slip over the
steel strings with little feet and whispery toes, his gently prophetic songs
evoke Roger Waters and the folk phase play is sure to appeal to fans of Animal
Collective's Sung Tongs.
Enjoy!