{"title":"Matthew Young","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"recurring-dreams-lp","title":"Recurring Dreams LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrag City \/ Yoga Records invite you to go deeper - back to Matthew Young's first solo album, 'Recurring Dreams'! Dating back to 1981 and the apex of the Eno \/ Berlin schools' influence over a myriad of American followers, Young created eight EMS \/ Rhodes pieces solo, subtly weaving in variable speed Revox manipulation of traditional rock instrumentation with the lightest of touches. What all too often amounted to predictable schtick in the field of early 80s home electronica, Young made personal, delicate, discreet, and discrete. Wordlessly illustrating its titles - Version Inversion, The Forest Of Lilacs, and Mistral (a strong, cold, northwesterly wind), Young conjures vivid, progressive tones of the unknown. Requiring the pleasure of repeat listenings to fully reveal its Bonsai-like qualities, Matthew Young's 'Recurring Dreams' is an essential piece of the puzzle in the summer of 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50492819046731,"sku":"377913","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d85a48b9-1c2c-4f0c-8ad5-09cac57307ef_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727693545"},{"product_id":"undercurrents","title":"Undercurrents","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrag City and Yoga Records are delighted to return to the music of Matthew Young. Following \u003cem\u003eRecurring Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e (1981, reissued 2014) and \u003cem\u003eTraveler's Advisory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(1986, reissued 2010), \u003cem\u003eUndercurrents\u003c\/em\u003e (2025) collects eight oddly dissimilar pieces that somehow fit together perfectly. Although unique enough to be called outsider, Young’s new album occupies a musical world accessible to fans of many genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComposed and recorded over the span of several decades, \u003cem\u003eUndercurrents\u003c\/em\u003e displays the wide range of Young’s various sonic pallets: similar to \u003cem\u003eRecurring Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, the electronic landscapes meander coherently, and much like \u003cem\u003eTraveler's Advisory\u003c\/em\u003e, the album skews from the nearly algorithmic computer music of side one to the moving pastoral folk of the second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the opener “Reflexion,” a quartet of marimbas twist and turn over each other, while in “One and All,” a harp melody is overtaken by various electronic effects. The 12-minute title track is an abstract weaving of piano and synthesis, with the six sections named after oceanic currents. “A Game of Chess, a Game of Chance” consists of sparse electronic tones created on the Princeton University IBM mainframe during his studies in 1976. This all makes way for the second half of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndercurrents\u003c\/em\u003e, where settings of Marion Lineaweaver's poems, “The Summer Girls” and \"Her Key is Minor,\" showcase Young's honest, fragile vocal approach, conveying a deep sense of soulful longing, and the latter even sweetly approaching something akin to synthpop. The piano on \"Inflexion\" calls back to the end of “Reflexion,\" and in the album closer, “Into the Woods,” Young plays the hammered dulcimer with the disciplined reverence of an alchemist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimply put, \u003cem\u003eUndercurrents\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumph across many musical realms... this is Matthew Young’s world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51431184073035,"sku":"R1593-5554","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/DC947hires.jpg?v=1741780271"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/matthew-young.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}