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Richard Youngs | Sapphie

CD, jagjaguwar/Konkurrent

Tekst: TJ Hatton

Publicatiedatum: 09 april 2001

"It's all a matter of soul and fire", a man named Lou Barlow once wisely opined. Richard Youngs knows this instinctively, for his triptych of songs comes straight from the heart. Perhaps inevitably for an album featuring the sounds of one man and his classical guitar, the ghost of Nick Drake shimmers throughout, although the vocal style is unmistakeably his own. Singing in a near falsetto, Youngs possesses a voice that sometimes wavers and other times cracks under the sheer weight of loss and longing it expresses. This is never more apparent than on the album's opener, 'Soon It Will Be Fire'. For nine glorious minutes, Youngs sounds both haunting and haunted by turns, on a serene and soaring ballad that equals anything found on Low's recent opus. Elsewhere, the slow and echoing guitar patterns convey a sense of calm and solitude, yet because Youngs' reverberating vocals fill each song with warmth, the overall effect is an uplifting one. 'Sapphie' contains soul and fire in equal measure. A quiet triumph.

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