***Tom Lyngcoln has been bending notes into human heads since the mid 1990s. Originating from Hobart, Lyngcoln’s early love of dissonance & uncomfortable intensity has carried through all of his projects from The Nation Blue to Lee Memorial (with Sodastream’s Karl Smith & Sleater Kinney’s Laura Macfarlane) to Harmony (with wife Alex Lyngcoln and McClusky’s Jon Chapple) and collaborations with Magic Dirt, Marc Ribot, Don Walker and more. After two decades of refinement, Tom Lyngcoln presents his most concise work; 11 pieces for voice and guitar collectively titled Doming Home. Using a suburban room, TL crushes notes together between harrowing screams and free form guitar work in the tradition of Syd Barrett, John Frusciante, Cat Power & Will Oldham. Recorded 10 minutes drive from one of the worst suburbs in Australia, Doming Home features 11 songs about sharks and the space around them… the terror of where they are and where they are not. The music is tense, spacious and volatile but still wades knee deep into traditional song. Numbered edition of 500 copies.
LP $23.50
06/09/2023
***Tom Lyngcoln has been bending notes into human heads since the mid 1990s. Originating from Hobart, Lyngcoln’s early love of dissonance & uncomfortable intensity has carried through all of his projects from The Nation Blue to Lee Memorial (with Sodastream’s Karl Smith & Sleater Kinney’s Laura Macfarlane) to Harmony (with wife Alex Lyngcoln and McClusky’s Jon Chapple) and collaborations with Magic Dirt, Marc Ribot, Don Walker and more. After two decades of refinement, Tom Lyngcoln presents his second solo album with help from Jay Allen (The Kill, Mid Youth Crisis, Fuck I'm Dead) on drums and Cal Foley (The Stevens, The Blinds) on bass. Numbered edition of 250 copies.
LP $23.50
06/09/2023
Escapist Blues is a collection of spoken word verse by author Jensen Tjhung and scored by Tom Lyngcoln. Ambitious and exhaustive, the collaboration began in 2019 and three years later is released by Australia's Solar/Sonar Records. Whilst primarily notable for the musical spaces both Tjhung and Lyngcoln have occupied (Deaf Wish, Lower Plenty & Harmony, The Nation Blue respectively), Escapist Blues is long form and comprehensive in it’s construction. Missives from other worlds, hammered down one-way phone conversations and writ large with big sounds. Twisted wit and weary wisdom are mashed into verses of hallucinatory confessionals. These pieces employ a sonic and descriptive architecture that builds tangible environments and situations that you can move around in and inhabit. Like it’s happening to you. But yes, these are claustrophobic spaces and you’ll be crawling or at the very least stooped. The follow up release to 2021’s Old Fashioned Superstition (Hex Enduction Books) Tjhung’s words are drought dry and dense. At once hilarious and heartbreaking. Tjhung’s words tilt the borders of reality and yet somehow seem to smoke out the truth. The instrumentation and production is all supplied by Lyngcoln, who bends field recording, electronics and his bastardized guitar into movements through which the readings pass. With guest appearances from drummer Lee Parker (Rot TV, Tol, Slug Guts), flautist Isobel D’Cruz (Hex Debt, Hantu), Saxophonist Maddy MacFarlane (Plaster of Paris) and Erica Dunn (Tropical Fuck Storm, Mod Con). Numbered edition of 300 copies.
LP $28.75
06/09/2023