Youngs, Richard & Simon Wickham Smith / 5 Years

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5 Years is the venerable duo’s first release since 2001’s Lammergeier. After recording and releasing nearly twenty albums between 1990 and 2001, Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith attempt an opposite approach to music making — an annual meeting to record a solitary ten-minute track. The resulting songs, each named for an intervening year, show the duo remarkably unaffected by the elapsed half-decade. Their signature mix of electronically treated percussion, ululating noise, and hand-on-the-knob tweaking continues to adapt “real human” instrumental expression to musique concrete sensibilities.

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