#Kilynn Lunsford

[goodbysunball]

Best of 2022

Here it is: my yearly summation of the small labels working through rising costs and punishing manufacturing delays, the artists making music unafraid of chance, and the freaks supporting all of it in spite of the daily consequences of a ruling class increasingly detached from reality. Lots more that deserve accolades from more prestigious publications, and I'm sure they'll get 'em, but these are records that were inseparable from certain points of my year, including now. Yeah, they were all kinda my favorite at one point, and could be again tomorrow, but Kilynn Lunsford is #1 for a reason. Glad to be back at shows, however sparingly, experiencing all the awkward camaraderie and room-silencing/room-flattening performances that come with them. It all feels more necessary than ever. Up and up in a world of lava. Happy New Year, everyone.

LP

Kilynn Lunsford, Custodians of Human Succession (ever/never)

Joe Colley, Deformation of Tone (Total Black)

Kitchen's Floor, None of That (Petty Bunco)

Thomas Bush, Preludes (Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox)

Hissing, Hypervirulence Architecture (Profound Lore)

Tim Goss, Afterfly (Penultimate Press)

Carla dal Forno, Come Around (Kallista)

Rose Mercie, ¿Kieres Agua? (Celluloid Lunch/Jelodanti)

Incipientium, Belastning (Förlag För Fri Musik)

Siobhan, Body Double (Nostilevo)

7"/12"/Cassette/CD

The Body & OAA, Enemy of Love CS (Thrill Jockey)

Brain Tourniquet, s/t 7" (Iron Lung)

CIA Debutante, "The Punch" b/w "The Garden" 7" (Digital Regress)

Cube, Proof of Bells CD (H&S Ranch)

Darksmith, Imposter CD (Throne Heap)

Gaoled, Bestial Hardcore 7" flexi (Iron Lung)

Greymouth, Twilight Furl 7" (Kashual Plastik)

Horrendous 3D, s/t 7" (Black Water)

Incipientium, Inhuman CS (Kashual Plastik)

Primitive Man, Insurmountable 12" (Closed Casket Activities)

RRR Band, s/t CS (Petty Bunco)

Sprite, Epic Sundry CS (Tropical Cancer Rort)

Stomachache, Hiss Noise Whir CD (Lagniappe Exposure)

R.I.P. Young Slo-Be

Rap

42 Dugg & EST Gee, “Thump Shit”

BandGang Lonnie Bands, Scorpion Eyes (Anti Media/TF Entertainment)

Denzel Curry feat. Key Glock, “Walkin (Remix)”

Earl Sweatshirt, SICK! (Tan Cressida)

Lil Durk & Gucci Mane, “Rumors”

Maz G x GuttaFoe, “Win Some, Lose Some” - what is going on in Milwaukee

Starlito & Troy Money, Cheap Phones & Turkey Bags (Grind Hard)

Billy Woods, Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)

Young Slo-Be, Southeast (KoldGreedy / Thizzler on the Roof)

Z Money, Back 2 the Blender (self-released) - thx @raygarraty

Pictured: Angels of Mons

Live shows

The Body at 529, Atlanta, GA (May 17)

Primitive Man, Mortiferum, Jarhead Fertilizer, Body Void & Elizabeth Color Wheel at The EARL, Atlanta, GA (May 20)

Brain Tourniquet, Excavate & Thirdface at DRKMTTR, Nashville, TN (July 16)

Reeking Aura at the Brickyard, Knoxville, TN (November 11)

Bitchin Bajas, Maspeth & Angels of Mons at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN (December 11)

Five songs that made my daughter dance every time they hit the deck

Bitchin Bajas, "Quakenbrück" from Bajascillators

Can, "Halleluhwah" from Tago Mago

Rose Mercie, "Cats and Dogs" from ¿Kieres Agua?

Träden, "När lingonen mognar (Lingonberries Forever)" from Träden

YL Hooi, "W/O Love" from Untitled

[futuresandpasts]

Brooklyn, NY, 04.22.24: Kilynn Lunsford / Collate / Blank Account

(three-color risograph print on graph paper, by me.)

[dustedmagazine]

Kilynn Lunsford — Custodians of Human Succession (ever/never)

Custodians Of Human Succession by Kilynn Lunsford

“Sewerland” rises like a swamp monster, its rupturing, rapturous bassline nosing from the murk as eerie ululations twitter around it. Amid the mist and heat, Kilynn Lunsford presides with cool disdain, chanting in hip hop, skip-rope rhythms over the roil and surge of it. Imagine Lydia Lunch spewing decadence over XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream, and you’re about three-quarters of the way there.

We last caught Kilynn Lunsford riding the firestorm known as Taiwan Housing Project, a Philly-based duo she shared with Harry Pussy’s Mark Feehan. Before that she sang and played a variety of instruments in Little Claw, an aughts noise punk band out of Detroit. Her solo project lowers the temperature from the levels achieved in these bands, but not the intensity. She may not get much over a murmur most of the time, but it is one focused, crazily off-kilter murmur. 

Consider, for instance, the opening track “Reality Testing,” in which an abrasive, twanging detuned guitar riff slings bent notes scattershot over the thump of a kickdrum. Lunsford chants in a deadpan, sardonic tone. She cracks wise in the most alienated way, itemizing a long list of methods for self-destruction, each bracketed by the phrase “reality testing.” Lots of unpleasantness ensues — “Take an acid bath, reality testing/Chew more glass, reality testing/Tightrope overpass, reality testing/Drink strychnine, reality testing/Smell nerve gas, reality testing” etc. — but it’s telling that the last phrase on the list is “Call yourself middle class.” And sure, obviously, that’s another way to go. 

Desolate dance rhythms run through cuts like “Sewerland” and “North Sea Shrimps,” and even the distended, surreal, funhouse-mirrored “Three Babies Make Ten,” but in some ways the most disturbing cuts are the soft ones. “Public Private Dream World” slouches into view on percolating drum machine rhythms and a languid piano, a loose-strung bass growling in the background. Here Lunsford breaks from a chant into something like a torch song, though the subject matter is utterly bleak. (For instance, she observes, “You’re throwing cocktail parties for the quislings that you serve.”)  You might get a frisson of Mica Levi’s otherworldly art punk in this song and in other loosely constructed ones like “Terminator Baby.”

It sounds like Lunsford had a particularly rough pandemic. She’s a health care workers’ organizer for one thing, and for another she’s immune compromised. That strange, frightening, unhealthy, early-COVID vibe runs all through this unsettling disc, where the air might be killing you and you might be dead in a week even though you feel fine right now. It’s a woozy, ominous world that Lunsford bumps and bops and chants through, but one well worth visiting. 

Jennifer Kelly

[buckgooter]

It's gonna be a happy birthday bash for Terry Turtle on 4/4!!! Ghost Brain album release show in Brooklyn @ourwickedlady !!! I'll be jamming Ghost Brain for my set w/ a very special guest on some songs and we've got rad bands @parlorwalls , @abunchofdeadpeople , and Sin Barrerás (members of @stuy______ ) rockin the bill, too!!!!  Also DJ @iamapureadult ! INSANE!!! Click to snag tickets.

Thank you so much to @neveragain420 for setting this banger up!!! And to @primieval for the poster!

Below are a pile of confirmed dates with some additions and subtractions from the previously posted poster! More to come! Get on out and tell your friends!!!

3/3/23 - Harrisonburg, VA @ The Golden Pony*

3/9/23 - New York, NY @ Secret Location in Chinatown w/ Bambara, Chronic

3/17/23 - Asheville, NC @ Static Age

3/18/23 - Roanoke, VA @ Flying Panther

3/31/23 - Reading, PA @ Gnome Hutch

4/1/23 - Boston, MA @ O’Briens

4/3/23 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Desperate Annie’s

4/4/23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Our Wicked Lady

4/7/23 - Richmond, VA @ Bandito’s

4/14/23 - Denver, CO @ GLOB*

4/15/23 - Albany, CA @ Ivy Room*^

4/16/23 - San Francisco, CA @ Thrillhouse*^

4/18/23 - San Pedro, CA @ The Sardine*^

4/19/23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse*^

4/21/23 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Lost Leaf*^

4/22/23 - Miami, AZ @ Miami Loco Arts Festival*^

* - Duo Shows^ - Tour w/ Kilynn Lunsford

[weekendance]

THE TUESDAY TAPES MARTEDÌ 24 GENNAIO 2023 1) LADYTRON > City of Angels 2) BILEO > You Can Win 3) THE BEAT > Too Nice to Talk to 4) MARINE > Marenas Bop 5) EN ATTENDANT ANA > Same Old Story 6) BELLE AND SEBASTIAN > So in the Moment 7) GLYDERS > High Time 8) JOHN CALE > Noise of You 9) JOHN CALE feat. WEYES BLOOD > Story of Blood 10) KILYNN LUNSFORD > North Sea Shrimps 11) BOBBY HUTCHERSON & HAROLD LAND > Goin’ Down South 12) BUDDHA STICK > Traction 13) PSYCHEMAGIK > Valley of Paradise (Time & Space Machine mix) (PS: se non visualizzate il widget, lo streaming della puntata è QUI)

[thetuesdaytapes]

THE TUESDAY TAPES MARTEDÌ 24 GENNAIO 2023 1) LADYTRON > City of Angels 2) BILEO > You Can Win 3) THE BEAT > Too Nice to Talk to 4) MARINE > Marenas Bop 5) EN ATTENDANT ANA > Same Old Story 6) BELLE AND SEBASTIAN > So in the Moment 7) GLYDERS > High Time 8) JOHN CALE > Noise of You 9) JOHN CALE feat. WEYES BLOOD > Story of Blood 10) KILYNN LUNSFORD > North Sea Shrimps 11) BOBBY HUTCHERSON & HAROLD LAND > Goin’ Down South 12) BUDDHA STICK > Traction 13) PSYCHEMAGIK > Valley of Paradise (Time & Space Machine mix) Ascolta su MIXCLOUD Ascolta su SPREAKER Guarda su YOUTUBE

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Reality Testing - Kilynn Lunsford

[cyanidetooth]

The Clean! The Great Unwashed! Roue'! Easter Monkeys! Dummy! Shux! Niis! Joy! Kilynn Lunsford! Children Maybe Later! Blacklisters! Desperate Living! Prayer Group! Kitchen's Floor! Slight Pavilions! Mariam Rezaei! Carlos Estela! Macri Caceres! Rodrigo Vera Cubas! Giancarlo Huapaya/Omar Cordova! Luis Alvarado! Glands Of External Secretion! Mark Cetilia!

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Kilynn Lunsford.

[ourladyofomega]

Taiwan Housing Project.

[futuresandpasts]

Collate is going on tour next month, would love to see y'all if you live in any of these places — getting anywhere outside of the West Coast is really tough & we can't do it often (don't count on seeing us "next time").

4/13 – Portland, OR / Turn Turn Turn with Public Pleasure & Notnauts 4/19 – Chicago, IL / Sleeping Village with Spread Joy, Daddy's Boy & Clickbait (info) 4/20 – Detroit, MI / Outer Limits Lounge with Tyvek & DENO 4/21 – Pittsburgh, PA / the Government Center with Difficult Customer & I4A (info) 4/22 – Brooklyn, NY / Hart Bar with Kilynn Lunsford & Blank Account 4/23 – Philadelphia, PA / Foto Club with Positronix, Eraser & the Shield (info) 4/24 – Richmond, VA / Fuzzy Cactus with Outer World & Hard Copy (info) 4/25 – Raleigh, NC / RUMAH with De()t & Future Fix (info) 4/26 – Atlanta, GA / Inner Space with Hospice & Chaos OK 4/27 – Nashville, TN (new venue) / Hubba Hubba Tiki Tonk with Invitation & Cowboy Killer 4/28 – St. Louis, MO / Platypus with Jenerator Jenkins, Popular Housing & Non-Euclidean Geometry (info) 4/29 – Indianapolis, IN / State Street Pub with Lousy Sue, Pigmale Brains & DJs WAX x CBG (info)

(three-color risograph print on paper, by me.)

[dustedmagazine]

Taiwan Housing Project — Sub-Language Trustees (Ever/Never)

Photo by Chris Sikich

Taiwan Housing Project tames an unruly no wave racket into blistered, thwarted grooves, built of primitive, tom-rampaging drums, feedback addled guitar, the odd blurt of belligerent sax and the cavern-echoing wail of Kilynn Lunsford (ex of Little Claw). Mark Feehan, who used to trade atonal vamps with Bill Orcutt in Harry Pussy (see this late 1990s performance) , is Lunsford’s main partner in these compulsive, compelling tracks, and though Harry Pussy is its own thing and resistant to comparisons, you can feel some of the same anarchic, female-rage-fueled explosiveness in Sub-Language Trustees.

This is Taiwan Housing Projects’ second full-length, and it feels significantly more focused than 2017’s Veblen Death Mask. Its noisy skree continues to unspool chaotically, both in Lunsford’s rants and Feehan’s free-wheeling guitar abuse, but both are channeled into tightly constructed rhythmic patterns. Anchored by brutalist drumming (Kelly Keith, Adam Payne, Donald Bruno) and Cameron Healy’s fuzz-clustered bass lines, these tracks lock in hard; the foundation holds and makes sense regardless of the mayhem flying around it.

Consider, for instance, “Buy Buy Buy” which begins, literally, with three young girls in a high pitched scream, pure, ear-punishing noise for its own sake. Yet almost immediately, a warped, wah-wah’d boogie kicks in, the raw bravado of blues rock twisted and corroded into anti-matter, like ZZ Topp sucked through a black hole. Lunsford pushes off against this foundation in wild, wailed chants on consumerism; it’s like watching a diver bounce on the board, rebounding from the give in the hard surface. There are some untethered, unhinged intervals of sax (that’s Kevin Nickles from Writhing Squares) and guitar feedback, but the track works because these forays break out of something solid.

Even the most aggressive cuts pulse with shuddering swagger; the noise abrades the groove but never entirely removes it. Listen to how the thudding bass and drums cut through miasmic distortion in “Toxic Garbage People.” You fall through a hole in the world as it courses around you, yet it’s never hard to find a unifying, body-shaking beat.

Jennifer Kelly

[buckgooter]

Buck Gooter will play some US shows in the first half of 2023, including a record release show for Ghost Brain on 4/4/23 in Brooklyn at The Sultan Room w/ Stuyedeyed, as well as jaunts on both coasts! There will be duo and solo shows. Check some of the dates below, more TBA!

2/11/23 - Philadelphia @ The Rotunda - Two Piece Fest*

2/24/23 - Fredericksburg, VA @ Eleven Eleven*

3/3/23 - Harrisonburg, VA @ The Golden Pony* 3/17/23 - Asheville, NC @ Static Age

3/31/23 - Reading, PA @ Gnome Hutch

4/1/23 - Boston, MA @ O’Briens

4/3/23 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Desperate Annie’s

4/4/23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Our Wicked Lady

4/7/23 - Richmond, VA @ Bandito’s

4/14/23 - Denver, CO @ GLOB*

4/15/23 - Albany, CA @ Ivy Room*^

4/16/23 - San Francisco, CA @ Thrillhouse*^

4/18/23 - San Pedro, CA @ The Sardine*^

4/19/23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse*^

4/21/23 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Lost Leaf*^

4/22/23 - Miami, AZ @ Miami Loco Arts Festival*^

* - Duo Shows

^ - Tour w/ Kilynn Lunsford

[ourladyofdiscord]

Taiwan Housing Project on Death, Musical Influences, and UFO Houses Noisy psych-jazz-punks-rootsy dynamos Taiwan Housing Project will be playing a FREE show tonight at Valley Bar (with Soft Shoulder).