Julian Lynch’s new album just got the Best New Music honors over at Pitchfork, and that’s probably a pretty good description of said album.

He makes collages out of sound, just like a lot of other people, but he one ups them by adding architectonic structure to them, giving them mountains and valleys. The whole album has a very laid-back feel, kind of like a jam session directed by an ethnomusicologist (which Lynch is). Vocals are especially haunting (think Justin Vernon with more effects), though unintelligible. The whole thing sounds very much like what the 2010′s think the 1960′s must have sounded like. Psych folk at its best, in short.
You can hear the whole thing at (one of our favorite internet startups) Bandcamp.
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