Label of love: Young God

Started as a means of releasing the music of his band Swans, Michael Gira's underground imprint now embraces psych-folk luminaries including Devendra Banhart and Akron/FamilyWriting about Young God being a classic record label feels a little like an act of deception. Not because it hasn't issued a string of excellent recordings. But if you envisage record labels to be airy offices with glass tables, huge advances and A&R men waving their chequebooks, Young God is most certainly not it.A one-man ...

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