scatterbrainedidiot
A band and album that flew under the radar for a long time, and is now recieving all the attention and praise they rightfully deserve. A staple of the genre and a must listen to anyone regardless of music taste.
Favorite track: Pennies to Save.
eatdogs
I discovered this record years after the band ended. Like a lot of people, it struck me in a passionate way that just gels so much with my love for Emo/Post-Hardcore music. Lync have a style all their own and each track here showcases the raw emotional talent that this band had. It's one of the permanent marks in the 90's Alternative sound and will forever be remembered by those who took a chance on it and explored with welcoming ears.
Favorite track: Perfect Shot.
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treasure chest has cash to change
but you get so manipulative
treasure chest has power to change
but your life gets too complicated
don’t believe you will
don’t believe you’ll kill
don’t believe you don’t wanna save the world
where has it gone?
sew that secret shut from eyes that see it
cuz seeing is believing
When the grunge explosion of the early ‘90s elevated Seattle’s flannel-clad misfits out of the divey clubs of downtown and into the mainstream, a new generation of restless artists filled the void left in the Pacific Northwest’s underground music scene. The under-21 crowd making music in the wake of Nevermind seemed even less enamored with the slick production values, classic rock nods, and testosterone-fueled moshing culture that came with the Zeitgeist, favoring their own kind of Revolution Summer-style pivot away from the popular sounds of the era towards a more emotionally nuanced, melodic, and inclusive style of punk. The Puget Sound trio Lync perfectly captured the spirit of that era, blending the passionate chaos of the DC and San Diego scenes with the rough-hewn DIY pop sensibilities of Olympia’s thriving indie community into one unified sound. Though they were only a band for two years, they helped define the next era of the Northwest underground, inspiring countless other artists and instigating the creation of beloved records from the region. After being out of print for over a decade, the band’s sole LP These Are Not Fall Colors has been remastered and expanded into a 2xLP with the inclusion of “Can’t Tie Yet”—a compilation track from the album’s recording session—into a deluxe edition available courtesy of Suicide Squeeze Records.
Originally released on K Records in the summer of ’94 just a few months before the band called it quits, These Are Not Fall Colors is a boisterous collection of scrappy basement-show anthems played on duct-taped-together gear. Led by the off-kilter melodies of late singer/guitarist Sam Jayne and hammered into place by the driving bass of James Bertram and drum battery of David Schneider, the album’s eleven songs channel that undefinable sound of the early ‘90s before descriptors like “post-hardcore” and “emo” became pejorative terms. Sure, you get a sense of the more sophisticated mid-tempo punk approach on songs like “B” and “Silverspoon Glasses,” and maybe catch wind of wistful songwriting on “Pennies to Save” and “Cue Cards,” but Lync seemed to cull their ideas from whatever bits of inspiration they could find in the gray gloom and geographic isolation of western Washington, absorbing it all and churning it together into a style uniquely their own.
Despite Lync’s short existence, modest aspirations, and DIY approach, their work had a ripple effect. Jayne and Bertram appeared on Beck’s One Foot in the Grave album. Jayne would go on to make music under the moniker of Love As Laughter. Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch was so enamored by the album that he enlisted Bertram and Schneider to serve as his rhythm section on the There’s Nothing Wrong with Love tour. These Are Not Fall Colors engineer Phil Ek would go on to help record and produce records by Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, and The Shins. Early bassist Isaac Brock and These Are Not Fall Colors album art contributor Jeremiah Green would go on to form Modest Mouse. Bertram and Green would also go on to form the revered indie rock group Red Stars Theory. At times it feels like you could pick any major Northwest indie rock group from the ‘90s and ‘00s and trace their DNA back to Lync.
The deluxe edition of These Are Not Fall Colors comes pressed on 180g vinyl and packaged in a gatefold cover with printed inner sleeves and expanded artwork by Jesse LeDoux. The 2xLP also features an 18x24 poster with extensive liner notes by Brian Cook. Altogether, this new version of These Are Not Fall Colors not only brings this celebrated classic back into analog libraries of old fans, it also provides new context and appreciation for Lync’s ongoing impact on both a local and international level. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to release the deluxe edition of These Are Not Fall Colors on October 20, 2023. Vinyl variants include a Lync exclusive version limited to 250 copies on 180g half & half vinyl, a Suicide Squeeze exclusive version limited to 250 copies on 180g twist vinyl, and a retail variant limited to 1000 copies on 180g color-in-color vinyl.
credits
released October 20, 2023
Produced and engineered by Phil Ek and Lync with help from Tim Green and Calvin Johnson @ John and Stu's place during spring and summer of 1994. John Atkins "and vitamins," Tim Green "moog," Dave Schneider "drums," Sam Jayne "guitar, vocals," James Bertram "bass guitar, vocals." "Logo" by Jeremiah Green. "Photos" by Josh Warren, Jeff Smith, and David Wildman.
Reissue: "remastered" JJ Golden, "layout" by Jesse LeDoux, "liner notes" by Brian Cook.
Thanks to everyone who has helped and supported us. Yeah Yeah.
Special thanks to Sam's family, Calvin Johnson, Zeke Howard, Sarah Cass and Eric Williger, Al Karpinski, and David Dickenson/Suicide Squeeze.
Lync was a 90s post-hardcore band from Olympia, WA
Formed in 1992, Lync was Sam Jayne, James Bertram and Dave
Schneider. Lync's distinctive sound of distortion, cryptic lyrics and irregular tuning created a chaotic, visceral sound which drew comparisons to Fugazi, The Fall, and Drive Like Jehu....more
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A fantastic album. I can see why they didn't continue under the name The Evens, as it's a different sound with the bass added. Coriky is the Evens + Joe Lally from Fugazi on bass. If you can imagine The Evens with a slightly more funky, aggressive sound like Fugazi... that's what you get! And there's no way that can ever go wrong. What a great debut album!! smiledozer
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