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  • Summary: The latest release for the Glasgow-based experimental artist was intended to mailed to multiple labels and use the rejection letters to create an art project, but Tim Burgess heard some songs and signed Youngs to his label.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
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  1. Uncut
    Mar 2, 2018
    90
    Youngs' take on British folk and art traditions remains rich and enthralling. [Apr 2018, p.37]
  2. Mar 2, 2018
    80
    Belief is an album for repeated listening, offering consolation, delight and reward in generous portions.
  3. Mar 2, 2018
    80
    Belief is a truly remarkable record; hermetic and idiosyncratic, the work of a stubborn maverick pursuing his own lone path.
  4. Mar 6, 2018
    80
    This album has a scale to it that occasionally transcends the intimacy one may associate with much of Youngs’ back catalogue.
  5. Mojo
    Apr 23, 2018
    80
    Young weaves 11 modern blues of frail longing around backwards guitar, mumbling bass and homemade percussion, his chanted lyrics like pale fragile spells for escaping the 21st century. [Jun 2018, p.93]
  6. The Wire
    Mar 2, 2018
    70
    Belief is one of his more structurally conventional turns. [Mar 2018, p.58]
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