Lync - These Are Not Fall Colors
Release date: 1994
When I got it: Fall 2007
Record label: K
Styles: Indie rock, emo
Top tracks: B, Cue Cards, Turtle
Every once in awhile you have a band that comes out of nowhere, records something brilliant, and then disappears again, seemingly forever. Lync is one of those bands. These Are Not Fall Colors is the only true album that the band from Olympia, Wash. recorded, but they certainly made the most of it.
Now, I imagine that some people who know me well are going to see "emo" in the styles and be surprised, because I have a tendancy of making fun of emo. The difference is, what most people think of as emo today, is not what emo was supposed to be in the beginning. Emo is now synonymous with shitty, whiney pop punk, and yes, if that's what emo truly is now, then it sucks.
But These Are Not Fall Colors is emotional without being whiney. I'm not even able to figure out most of the lyrics (surprise!), but the emotion lies in the passion with which the lyrics are sung and the instruments are played. On this album, Lync sounds like a cross between Rights of Spring, Modest Mouse and The Jesus Lizard, and that's not an easy cross to make.
"B" is quite possibly my favorite opening track ever (Hmmm ... I wonder how many more times I'll say that in this countdown). Still, every time I hear that opening guitar part and then the bass joins in, I start to get excited for the song. But the payoff in "B" comes at the end with one of my favorite closings. That last minute of the song doesn't have any passionate screaming vocals or extended bursts of noise, but the way that the guitar, bass, drums and Sam Jayne's vocals work together simply may have achieved perfection.
"Cue Cards" is another highlight song on the album and has quite possibly the most effective two-word chorus ever: "Cue cards! Cue cards!" (Sweet bass line) "Cue cards! Cue cards!"
It's a shame that the number of words in that chorus managed to outnumber their amount of true albums or Lync could've have been remembered by more as one of the great bands to come out of the Pacific Northwest.
It's a shame that the number of words in that chorus managed to outnumber their amount of true albums or Lync could've have been remembered by more as one of the great bands to come out of the Pacific Northwest.
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