Describing Julian Lynch’s music is difficult, period. But it is even harder to describe his music without falling back on certain buzzwords, terms that have been so overused by music journalists over the past year that they seem to designate everything and nothing at all. We might say, for example, that Julian makes blissed-out 21st-century psychedelia, waltzing lackadaisically through the bottomless archive of musical references (Western and non-) that the internet puts at our fingertips.
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Posts Tagged ‘Orange You Glad’
Portraits: Interview with Julian Lynch on Tiny Mix Tapes, plus one question that was never published
Friday, October 30th, 2009Sightings: Julian Lynch, “Seed” Video
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
JULIAN LYNCH “SEED” VIDEO from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.
Some food for thought to accompany this gorgeous–and I find, very autumnal–new music video by Amy Ruhl, straight from an interview I conducted with songwriter, ethnomusicology grad student, and all-around good-natured fellow Julian Lynch this month on Orange You Glad, his debut lp:
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August 1: Visitation Rites Website Launch Party w/Ducktails and Julian Lynch Double Record Release at Market Hotel in Brooklyn
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
On Saturday, August 1st at Market Hotel in Brooklyn, Visitation Rites will throw a real-space housewarming party for its new virtual home (www.visitation-rites.com) as Olde English Spelling Bee drops two new vinyl releases that we are just dying to hear: Ducktails‘ Landscapes and Julian Lynch’s Orange You Glad. Performances by Talibam! Hard Vibe Trio, Steve Gunn-Heidi Diehl Duo, Julian Lynch, and Behavior. Support your local millennial psychedelia!
Julian Lynch, Orange You Glad, Olde English Spelling Bee
Monday, April 6th, 2009![orangeyouglad452[1]](http://www.visitation-rites.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/orangeyouglad4521.jpg "orangeyouglad452[1]")
Is there something in the water in Ridgewood, New Jersey, or does the Garden State just happen to be coughing up a lot of blissed-out psychedelia these days? Like childhood neighbor and long-time collaborator Matt Mondanile (Ducktails, Predator Vision, Real Estate), Julian Lynch has been churning out more quality homegrown recordings than we have time to digest. His sound, a one-man patchwork of vocals, wah wah guitar, bass, drums, and kitschy synth effects, carries the happy-go-lucky quality synonymous with recent Ridgewood output into the territory of the singer-songwriter.
