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Songs We Love: AMOR, 'Amnesia'

The Glaswegian quartet is one of the greater, and darkly pleasant, recent surprises in dance music, led by experimental musician Richard Youngs.
AMOR.

Glaswegian quartet AMOR is one of the greater, and darkly pleasant, recent surprises in dance music. Leader (vocals, keyboards) needs little introduction to followers of experimental sound art, with a body of work spanning decades and) to mournfully piercing displays of noise and tape loops () and points in-between both introspective and maximal.

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