{"id":4785,"date":"2011-05-29T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:39:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:39:36","slug":"two-great-but-divergent-cds-alex-lynch-welcome-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/05\/29\/two-great-but-divergent-cds-alex-lynch-welcome-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Two great but divergent CDs:  Alex Lynch, welcome to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/One-Glimpse-Away-pic.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/One-Glimpse-Away-pic-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/One-Glimpse-Away-pic.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/One-Glimpse-Away-pic.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong>Alex Lynch<br \/>\n<em>One Glimpse Away<\/em><br \/>\nSelf-Released, 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Kent Manthie<\/strong><br \/>\n    Talk about hitting the jackpot with a DIY project:  Alex Lynch, a native Russian who seems to have a pretty damn good grasp of English, has just put out one of two releases he currently has on the market.  <em>One Glimpse Away<\/em> is a 6-song EP that just rocks.  Listening to it, the CD sounds like a cross between Metallica, after they cut their hair and went \u201cmainstream\u201d (<em>Fuel<\/em>, etc.) and some of the underground LA bands.  I thought I heard a tiny bit of Emo in there, but I\u2019m sure that it was only a coincidence.  The music just has to much of a punch to write it off as \u201cEmo\u201d &#8211; but there is a vague LA feel to it, like a late-night drive down Santa Monica Blvd or the Sunset Strip, but without the glitter and disco.<br \/>\n    The first track, \u201cH.E.I.L.E.\u201d is a great opener.  It\u2019s ballsy hard-rock jars the senses and comes out sounding fresh and pure.  \u201cHere For Us\u201d and \u201cMemories\u201d are two other tracks that stand out and deserve a mention here.  This is the first time I\u2019ve heard Russian artists who are, presumably, very influenced by American rock, especially LA and Seattle rock and the really great thing about it is that it doesn\u2019t come across as forced or some kind of foreign knock-off, like a cheap counterfeit Prada bag you find in Dubai or some Eastern metropolis.  This is the real thing &#8211; just as good, if not better than his peers who are living it up in the Hollywood hills, getting told what to play by some jerk A &amp; R guy from some major-label (trust me, you don\u2019t want to sign any contracts with anyone who\u2019s with any label owned by Warner Bros., EMI, Bertelsmann or Sony.  You may like the money at first, but it\u2019s like selling your soul &#8211; later on down the road you\u2019re going to be unhappy at what their minions try and make you turn into.   The  best thing is to keep at the DIY thing until you find a comfortable relationship with an independent label, one that will give you complete control over your artistic product. <strong> -KM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Allusions-of-Lynch-pic.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Allusions-of-Lynch-pic-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Allusions-of-Lynch-pic.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Allusions-of-Lynch-pic.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong>Allusions of Lynch<br \/>\n<em>Bloom Again<\/em><br \/>\nSelf-Released<br \/>\nReviewed by Kent Manthie<\/strong><br \/>\n    This, the second of two self-released CDs by Alex Lynch, this one being under the name Allusions of Lynch, giving it a patina of a band effort, <em>Bloom Again<\/em> is, unlike his other DIY solo effort, released under the name Alex Lynch, One Glimpse Away, is not the same in terms of style, sound and instrumentation:  <em>Bloom Again<\/em> is a spare, electric-acoustic guitar-driven album, just Alex and a plugged-in acoustic playing ten tunes that, besides the sparseness, have an edge that really cuts like a razor.  It has the same attitude, the laconic, laid-back L.A.-style rock that belies his being a native Russian.  For one thing his English is flawless, I haven\u2019t heard him speak, but in his singing, at least, you can\u2019t hear a trace of an accent.<br \/>\n    <em>Bloom Again<\/em> does remind one of the EP that Alice in Chains released in about 1993, <em>Jar of Flies<\/em>, wherein they took a similar tack:  they played plaintive, edgy songs in the same stripped down \u201cacoustic\u201d setting, albeit with drums and an acoustic bass as well, but it\u2019s the sound of the \u201cpicked-up\u201d acoustic guitar Lynch plays on <em>Bloom Again<\/em> that evokes that memory; that as well as the same edginess, minus the dead-on two-part harmony that the late Layne Staley did so well with guitarist\/vocalist Jerry Cantrell.<br \/>\n    Of the 10 tracks that grace <em>Bloom Again<\/em>, songs that make this CD such a captivating album include:  \u201cLike Feathers\u201d, \u201cShe\u2019s Mine\u201d and \u201c Void\u201d, a song with some great guitar licks to it.  Another stand-out is the quiet storm that is the title track; it\u2019s a slowed-down, introspective song that could be thought of as the ugly, cold, dead world of winter giving way to the rebirth that is spring, bringing back to life new blooms, hence the title.  Also worth mentioning is \u201cHaunting\u201d, a song which is self-descriptive:  another introspective, slow song that doesn\u2019t bring one down, but rather makes you think or at least stop and think about nothing.<br \/>\n    Another outstanding feature of Lynch\u2019s is his guttural, but graceful singing voice, one that can metamorphose from a silent scream to a plaintive wail that complements the edgier licks and hooks.<br \/>\n    With this sort of variation that Lynch can do and the versatility that is evident in his songwriting and style of music it\u2019s obvious that he is no one-note Charlie, no he definitely has something special about his musical sense.  I hope that he catches on quickly enough to a cult-following in America, where his music should be most appreciated, since the analogues that follow are all American bands as influences.   <strong>-KM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Lynch One Glimpse Away Self-Released, 2010 Tweet Reviewed by Kent Manthie Talk about hitting the jackpot with a DIY project: Alex Lynch, a native Russian who seems to have a pretty damn good grasp of English, has just put out one of two releases he currently has on the market. One Glimpse Away is a 6-song EP that just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18673,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2022\/01\/25\/dj-kelly-lynchs-tape-release-party-in-1995\/","url_meta":{"origin":4785,"position":0},"title":"DJ Kelly Lynch&#8217;s Tape Release Party in 1995","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"January 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"[House Music] 35mm Digitized Put The Needle On The Record by Reviewer Rob Here's a gallery of some black and white photos from 1995, I believe. 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