Erskine Lynas - A Menagerie For One (Cassette Album)
A Menagerie For One is a seductively apt title for the collection of songs within it. If a picture is worth a thousand words then surely the title alone paints a thousand pictures to its listeners long before they press play, these few words evoke its enclosure beautifully.
The second album from Erskine Lynas was written and recorded in 2018 and continues where his debut record (released in 2017 by Local Action) left off, this time though there’s a conscious effort to make music without the reliance of bright synthesisers, instead the more muted musical palette puts an increased focus on Lynas’ songwriting.
The influences are loosely tied to Peter Gabriel, ‘Spirit Of Eden’ by Talk Talk, Yo La Tengo’s
‘And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out’ along with films such as Shane Caruth’s ‘Upstream Color,‘ a concrete influence in this anthology however is that of the sea, it appears regularly throughout which makes sense if we consider the artists locale on the shores of a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean but geography aside, there’s something else going on with this relationship, one that is not only significant but poetic and far-reaching.
“Our faces wet with north sea spray/Green devours gold/Alchemy/Beaming faces on a plastic front/ A magnets power versus... more
Credits
released June 26, 2020
All songs written, performed and recorded by Thomas Emslie
All songs mixed by Thomas Emslie and Kenny Atkin
All songs mastered by Kenny Atkin
Artwork by TRY Industries
A Menagerie For One is a seductively apt title for the collection of songs within it. If a picture is worth a thousand words then surely the title alone paints a thousand pictures to its listeners long before they press play, these few words evoke its enclosure beautifully.
The second album from Erskine Lynas was written and recorded in 2018 and continues where his debut record (released in 2017 by Local Action) left off, this time though there’s a conscious effort to make music without the reliance of bright synthesisers, instead the more muted musical palette puts an increased focus on Lynas’ songwriting.
The influences are loosely tied to Peter Gabriel, ‘Spirit Of Eden’ by Talk Talk, Yo La Tengo’s
‘And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out’ along with films such as Shane Caruth’s ‘Upstream Color,‘ a concrete influence in this anthology however is that of the sea, it appears regularly throughout which makes sense if we consider the artists locale on the shores of a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean but geography aside, there’s something else going on with this relationship, one that is not only significant but poetic and far-reaching.
“Our faces wet with north sea spray/Green devours gold/Alchemy/Beaming faces on a plastic front/ A magnets power versus... more
Credits
released June 26, 2020
All songs written, performed and recorded by Thomas Emslie
All songs mixed by Thomas Emslie and Kenny Atkin
All songs mastered by Kenny Atkin
Artwork by TRY Industries
A Menagerie For One is a seductively apt title for the collection of songs within it. If a picture is worth a thousand words then surely the title alone paints a thousand pictures to its listeners long before they press play, these few words evoke its enclosure beautifully.
The second album from Erskine Lynas was written and recorded in 2018 and continues where his debut record (released in 2017 by Local Action) left off, this time though there’s a conscious effort to make music without the reliance of bright synthesisers, instead the more muted musical palette puts an increased focus on Lynas’ songwriting.
The influences are loosely tied to Peter Gabriel, ‘Spirit Of Eden’ by Talk Talk, Yo La Tengo’s
‘And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out’ along with films such as Shane Caruth’s ‘Upstream Color,‘ a concrete influence in this anthology however is that of the sea, it appears regularly throughout which makes sense if we consider the artists locale on the shores of a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean but geography aside, there’s something else going on with this relationship, one that is not only significant but poetic and far-reaching.
“Our faces wet with north sea spray/Green devours gold/Alchemy/Beaming faces on a plastic front/ A magnets power versus... more
Credits
released June 26, 2020
All songs written, performed and recorded by Thomas Emslie
All songs mixed by Thomas Emslie and Kenny Atkin
All songs mastered by Kenny Atkin
Artwork by TRY Industries