Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs, Electric Lotus (side A)

While Richard Youngs's work is incredibly diverse, it tends to lean toward introspection and self-effacing tendencies.  The LP of 2007's Electric Lotus is extroverted and brash.  It feels almost like a sequel to Snyder and Thompson's 1973 classic Daily Dance, with heavy guitars and continuously propulsive drums.  The guitars infrequently form layers—it's hard to tell if overdubs were used, but my best guess is just a looping pedal.  Everything sounds primitive and clean, which is surprising when many of Youngs's albums draw attention to their lo-fi construction.  Side A features several shorter pieces, while one track fills all of side B.  The hastily drawn cartoon on the cover hints at the chaos inside, but in some ways it would fit better with one of Youngs's more primitive constructions.  The album came with a bonus CD of shakuhachi / drum duets, but I bought my copy used and it was missing the bonus disc.