LYNY's Melancholic "The Familiar" EP Is a Departure Worth Celebrating: Listen

LYNY’s new EP is something however acquainted.

Like a bat out of hell, the younger beatsmith has furiously ascended the bass music ranks as one of many style’s brightest producers in 2023. Wonky sound design and teeth-rattling bass are his traditional keystones, however they’re absent in The Familiar, a three-track stunner the place melancholy is canon.

LYNY has stepped far out of his consolation zone to raise his music to new heights—and it is a departure value celebrating. Storytelling is on the core of the brand new EP, out now on Of The Trees’ groundbreaking Memory Palace imprint, which is rapidly turning into a formidable tastemaker within the digital music neighborhood.

LYNY acting at The Caverns.
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LYNY kicks off with the house-inspired “Cat Tale,” a warm-and-fuzzy ode to his cat Kitty, who sadly handed away across the time he wrote the music. He follows with the languid electronica of “Attach,” a wistful monitor beholden to the butterfly impact of his previous relationships, earlier than closing with “Home,” a cozy four-on-the-floor beat he produced after visiting his dad and mom’ home after a lengthy stretch of touring.

The Familiar, LYNY says, is basically a microcosm of his realized means to concretize life’s intangible classes.

“Familiar is a complex idea for when you treat something immaterial—like happiness, fear, or evil—as a material thing,” LYNY mentioned in a press launch. “This can be a way of making something concrete and easier to understand. In this case, the music itself is a material thing, which serves as the familiar, or reification, of what I’ve learned about growing as a person in the past few years.”

Listen to The Familiar under and discover the brand new EP on streaming platforms right here.