Lunsford, Kilynn

Lunsford, Kilynn

Promiscuous Genes

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God bless the barbarians and the ignorami for rescuing us from an even more repulsive technological society .. If we hadn't had a “dark age,” if Mao’s fanatic followers hadn’t put the intellectual class out to pasture and dashed their skulls in the dirt, if there hadn't been Magyars, Vikings, Christians, anti-science zealots of every stripe, iconoclasts, country music disc jocks, the Amish, and other regressive forces to set civilization and progress back every once in a while, can you imagine the festering quagmire we’d be in? Something even more digitally dismaying than the present perhaps.That's why the rock ‘n’ roll of Kilynn Lunsford is so vital; it’s a pagan & primitive rhythm music that has served to stymie the development of neoliberal libertarian hegemonic forces & Silicon Valley’s strange cyborg agenda alike (as well as inspiring more than a few indie rockers to attempt something more interesting). Invoking the ghosts of Michael Zilkha’s sleek Ze Records disco-electro-bongo punk stable with some Pop Group, Man Parrish, Pink Section, New Age Steppers, On-U sound, Lene Lovich, & Algebra Suicide— with some Birthday Party/Bat-cave follies thrown in for good measure.Kilynn is a legendary performer whose many records defy categorization or easy assimilation in the mainstream indie market which has cozied up to the digital leviathan so snugly. Her music is dance dissonance; irresistible but difficult for the algorithm to understand. Kilynn Lunsford doesn’t go in for the trite stories publicity teams use to wage their lowbrow PR campaigns. Hers is a hard...