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Under Stellar Stream

Richard Youngs

Under Stellar Stream

The latest album from prolific English experimental folk-rock artist

Label
Jagjaguwar
UK Release date
26/10/2009
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  1. 7.8 |   Pitchfork

    This album's title may be self-deprecatingly ironic, but these are confident, accessible tunes by an artist who has often injected melody into even his most difficult work
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  2. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    Youngs' knack for catchy, familiar-sounding lines, which sound plucked from traditional folk songs, makes Under Stellar Steam mesmerizing
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  3. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    Youngs bears witness to how the calm of music offers repose from the confusion of the mind. Whilst cerebral words draw towards near desolation, his notes reach a far-away oblivion, then fall off - as if space analogies could go no further - into silence
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  4. 7.0 |   NME

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