Beautiful 2 fold (Lync & Moonraker)

As you can probably tell this is a double post. The reason? Honestly, because I need all the street cred I can get after my last two posts. As of recent I’ve been getting real into 90’s emo and indie rock. These are two of the bands that stand out in my mind when I think of that time; I was born in ‘92 so I never got to hear any of this when it was new, and Louisiana’s local scene was lacking back then, so as a kid the only all ages show I ever got to see was zydeco music. Although I know I should be proud that you could just about only hear zydeco in Louisiana I could never get interested in it.

At any rate other states where churning out stuff like this. Lync, in my opinion, is the quintessential 90’s indie rock band. They have the best of everything. The music is a beautiful, distorted, mess that is somewhat like an abstract painting. Some people will love it, and others will just write it off as a waste. The lyrics have a somewhat childish seriousness, and it seems like every song was written by a couple of bored kids that just wanted to make a band. I think that’s what makes Lync so great. The music sounds so effortless and simple, the lyrics are simple yet out there, and everything just clicks. The singer has a great voice, and it’s defiantly something you don’t hear too often anymore, but back in the 90’s everyone kinda just sounded like that.


8/10Lync - These are not fall colors





Now on to Moonraker. You haven’t heard a beautiful song until you’ve heard Friendly Fire. The guys voice is a bit odd, but the subtle underlying poetry of the song sets it off, and not to mention the feeling he puts into every word. You know how sometimes you can hear a song and it seem lifeless like the person never did what they talk about in the song, and it feels like it has no heart? Well that’s not this track. I could write another whole paragraph about how much I love that song, but it’s not the only good song by them. Every song has the same feel, with slow openings; fast paced hard-hitting choruses, than back to peaceful verses. Not all the songs follow this formula so it switches up and keeps it from getting predictable.

Really the only downside to Moonraker is how bad the recordings are. I mean its weird how the three live tracks have less distortion. Accident Prone is great and on the live version you can hear it a lot more clearly and it has a kind of My Favorite Citizen feel. Microgroove and Chicago Train are great live tracks, but in comparison every track is just filler before and after Friendly Fire. (Had to say something more about it.) I mean, don’t get me wrong all these songs are amazing, but FF just gets to me in a way that the others don’t.


9/10Moonraker - Discog