Inspired by friends and fellow bloggers, I’ve decided to start a series of music mix downloads on my blog (space mountain dot tumblr dot com). Here is the first:
http://bit.ly/5BEwwt

Amy Ruhl (who made the video for my song "Seed") answers a few questions:
http://www.slowdecade.com/reporting/2009/10/14/art-brute-no-3-seed.html

Thanks Amy and Olde English Spelling Bee!
http://vimeo.com/7023712

Two new songs, on the internet!

1) "Ears"
listen on my blog, Space Mountain:
http://tumblr.com/xov3egnu5

2) "Untitled"
listen on Chocolate Bobka:
http://bit.ly/2CGw4G

In English and French:

http://www.wowmagazine.fr/2009/09/25/julian-lynch-interview/

spacemountain.tumblr.com

My album Orange You Glad is ready for consumption. You can order it from me, via julianlynch.blogspot.com

Also, this is a Cyndi Lauper cover I recorded, if you are interested: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lknyjyjl25a



Orange You Glad:

Thank you Volcanic Tongue!

http://www.volcanictongue.com/tips

Julian Lynch
Orange You Glad
Olde English Spelling Bee OESB-41
LP
£15.99

You might have spotted Julian Lynch’s name as a member of Ducktails
and Predator Vision, but behind the scenes he has been amassing a
fairly formidable catalogue of solo CD-Rs that are near perfect
articulations of Hypnagogic pop. Orange You Glad is his debut LP, a
collection of four track recordings cut at home in Ridgewood, New
Jersey and in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is a student of
ethnomusicology. The album consists of a series of songs and
instrumentals that exist in a zone that is totally beyond technique.
The recording is crudely sophisticated, with an instinctive, naturally
musical feel even when the sonic aesthetic is beyond the whole
Xpressway/Siltbreeze ethos of destroyed fidelity. The bass is
non-rhythmic in the extreme, appearing now and then, just out of place
and time, functioning more as harmonic/melodic brackets that help to
focus the music towards some kind of tonal center. The drums are
crude, the guitar a punk blaze of almost-Kurihara style tremolo and
fuzz. The gorgeous, soaring vocals at first seem to work against the
grime of the music, the kind of high multi-tracked harmonies that
would re-locate The Beach Boys’ “Surfer Girl” into the raggedy
environs of Tori Kudo’s Guys N Dolls play the music of Chris Bailey
and Ed Kuepper but it’s an inspired marriage, with the massively
devolved nature of the jams colliding with the angelic vocal
arrangements to birth an atmosphere with the kind of benign punk
urgency first postulated by the early Modern Lovers. Then there are
the instrumentals and mood-pieces, where Lynch brings in aspects of
his ethnological studies, with Eurasian melodies and even high-life
style guitars crowned by coronas of circular reed work, peaking in an
instrumental with a lead saxophone part so beautiful it feels as if it
was plucked right out of your dreams as you fell asleep in front of
the TV aged 12. It’s a truly unique album, one that combines savagely
primitive rock breakdowns with some of the most gorgeous Hypnagogic
stylings to come out of the whole Ducktails/Predator Vision/Real
Estate scene. Orange You Glad announces a major new voice. Highly
recommended.