Richard Youngs

*150 copies limited edition* If you have been paying close enough attention to the often strange yet alluring part of the world Richard Youngs operates in, you should have noticed that since the middle of 2025 he embarked on a new sonic journey that has subsequently become a trilogy of LPs on Fourth Dimension Records. Each of these is limited to 150 and is named after either a mythical Babylonian king or entity of Richard’s own devising, while the music itself has been of an instrumental nature despite the occasional deployment of Richard’s vocals to embellish the proceedings with a harmonic element.

Zermisz, the third and final entry in this trilogy, once more catches Richard applying his skills at creating hypnotic music that bypasses the usual trappings and instead generates a space where one should never feel too comfortable with for fear of getting swept away by one of the tidal shifts also at work. Using an assortment of grizzled electronic tones, skyward-bound screech, alien pulses, rasping drones and tempered chanting all together neatly kept in place by minimalist ur-rhythms of a funereal disposition, these two side-long compositions are at once beautiful, haunting and ominous in scope.

Richard Youngs, of course, is no stranger when it comes to creating avant-garde music that can lull one in with a false sense of security. Zermisz is no exception to this in its bringing the trilogy to a close that is hopefully as perplexing as it is capable of making the listener thirst for more.