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• Released on: 1997-03-01
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Customer Reviews

Excellent scrappy pop music
I initially bought "these are not fall colors" because some guy at a record store was playing it and it sounded wonderful to my ears. This being Lync's only other release on K records, I had to buy it. "Pennies to Save" is a perfect pop song and probably, the least loud song. So, if you fear easily of loud music, go to this song first, relax as it plays and then, start the CD over. I give this cd my highest endorsement. Musically, this cd is much poppier than their other. The vocals are half screamed, half sung but done, very well. There also seems to be some sonic resonance in the vocals. Very nice touch. The style of the music is basic spare garage pop punk. There are a few moments of pure pop but the production and the influence is clearly punk. I have always enjoyed bands like Superchunk, Jawbreaker, and Built to Spill AND Lync fits into this category very nicely. There's certainly an urgency to their delivery. "Pegeons" is an epic song of the soft/loud-fast variety. The song writer for this band has strong pop leanings but the delivery clobbers any of the typical sacharine sounding possibilities.

Salad Days
When I was a senior in high school, my friend made me a tape compiling his favorite 7" records. On the first side of the tape was Lync's "two feet in front". The bassline, like on Rites of Spring's "for want of", is the sort that will flood the mind with emotions--it somehow seems inextricably linked with nostalgia of the saddest kind. I now live far from where I grew up, and am done with school. When I hear the song, I think of walking the streets of New York, the streets filthy with slush, the air frigid, with my (then) girlfriend beside me, a cold 40 oz. in my backpack, with life full of possibilities. I saw the band play in Olympia that summer, and then moved away from home to go to school. The band's raw, powerful naive sound so closely reminds me of my youth--it's a personal soundtrack to time lost.

Original music on Fireballs
We could sit and critique every song on this album, but to me one thing is clear and needs to be mentioned. Lync was one of the very firsts to make this type of music. They may have had other influences previous to them, but they took them and made their own. What came of them? Bands like Modest Mouse and Built to Spill. Remembering the Fireballs is a perfect example of Lync's music. Gritty, lo-fi, honest, in your face. They may not have been as popular, or even as good as bands like MM and B2S, but just like Stevie Ray Vaughan wouldn't exist without Hendrix, those bands wouldn't have existed without Lync. If you like older MM type music and are interested in seeing part of their roots, check out this album. An excellent album by an excellent group of kids.