Release Date: Dec 9, 2016
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
Record label: Glass Records Redux
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Despite 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..
Across his enormous discography of 100-plus releases, the Glasgow-based sonic shaman Richard Youngs has had one foot in English folk traditions and the other in avant-garde experimentation. Young 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.
Richard Youngs — The Rest is Scenery (Glass Redux)<a href="http://glassredux. bandcamp. com/album/the-rest-is-scenery">The Rest Is Scenery by Richard Youngs</a>Ever the conceptualist, underground legend Richard Youngs takes his music back the absolute basics on The Rest is Scenery.
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