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- Summary: Each song on the British multi-instrumentalist's latest release was based on a single minor-guitar chord.
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- Record Label: Glass Records Redux
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
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UncutDec 12, 2016The result: gorgeous, unpretentious post-folk melancholy. [Jan 2017, p.32]
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The WireDec 21, 2016Youngs’s knack of picking resonant phrases is at peak levels. [Dec 2016, p.66]
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Dec 12, 2016Despite self-imposed strategic boundaries, The Rest Is Scenery is a remarkably free and unfettered album. Most artists couldn't conceive of such a thing, let alone pull it off; Youngs does it in spades.
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Dec 14, 2016Richard Youngs has given us an album that just about anyone can pick up a guitar to play along to, but that doesn’t mean the experience of listening to The Rest is Scenery is an easy one. Fans of his, of course, wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Dec 12, 2016Young is classically trained, but beholden to the values of punk rock and for this collection he has decided to throw technical competence out of the window by basing each song around the strumming of a single chord. These tunes can thus, in theory, be covered by anyone within hours of picking up a guitar.
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Q MagazineDec 13, 2016A specialist interest. [Feb 2017, p.119]
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MojoDec 12, 2016If it doesn't reach the sustained invention of John Coltrane's odyssey in E, Africa/Brass, Youngs' talent for wringing emotion from base materials remain undimmed. [Jan 2017, p.102]