With the advent of home recording and no secret formula to get your music out there and heard, musicians are looking for different ways to release and promote their music. Four months ago Derek Lynch released 3 songs entitled under the title All Is Not Lost I: Spring and now he released All Is Not Lost I: II:Summer.
Two more installments are on their way, as he is using the seasons as a backdrop for his releases. I tried something new for the first installment and did a interview with Lynch via trading recorded answers and I added the questions.
What works in sending only three songs at a time, is I was more inclined to give all three a good listen. The first song is entitled “Space Camp, or Improvisation on Two Pianos”, which would starts out a little with a little beat with keyboards and then transitions into a piano piece with two pianos. A good soundtrack for an indie film for sure.
“June” is a folky song with some churchy harmonies which comes off as a optimistic with some trepidation and the chorus really picks it up and brings it home. I really dig the little guitar lick, on the chorus. It’s catchy and a little country as it sound likes it rolls into some slide guitar before the final chorus.
“Fighter” starts off mellow with acoustic and piano and some great lines. “The Summers almost over, and I am feeling so much colder” really stands out and the emotion of the song pulls you in. As it moves along there is a point then the song gets more lush and fills up with more instruments and creates an alternate verse or bridge section. And then it all comes back to earth and closes out with “I tried to be a lover, but I guess I am fighter in the end”. Which turns to be a great ending point.
Lynch pulls off three songs that might not entirely fit together but somehow work. His songwriting is complex, but not hard to decipher and enjoy. I look forward to the Fall, where I can feast on three more of his tracks to see where this all leading to.
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