Richard Daniel Warren (born 3 June 1973) is a British musician, songwriter and producer. He signed his first record deal with Heavenly Recordings at the height of Britpop in 1996, as one third of The Hybirds. In 1999 when the band split, he branched out on his own and away from guitar-led pop, signing to Mute Records as Echoboy after Daniel Miller heard his self-released 12" Flashlegs (Suite). He went on to release several self-produced solo albums on Mute including Giraffe, which was produced by Flood, and having put together a band he toured extensively with, amongst others, Elastica, Add N to (X) and Broadcast. In 2003 he was asked by Jason Pierce to play bass guitar in Spiritualized, with whom he toured throughout 2003-05. He also played bass on and co-engineered the band's 2008 album Songs in A&E. In 2005/06 he released a set of five limited edition 7" singles under the pseudonym Modlang. During 2005-09 he played guitar with both Starsailor and Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan, playing guitar on the 2009 Starsailor album All the Plans and on the Soulsavers albums It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land and Broken. In 2008 he formed The Cold Light of Day, releasing the limited edition EP Flesh & Blood in April 2009. In October 2009 he left The Cold Light of Day to pursue other projects and released a solo album Laments in July 2010, which made it into the NME's '50 best albums of the year so far' list. His latest album, The Wayfarer was released on 17 October 2011.
