Description:	LP on Not Not Fun
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Not Not Fun
	Price:	£14.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brett on 05 March 2009.

I did that last Sun Araw thing they did with Predator Vision so I thought I'd probably have no words left to do another of their LPs so soon afterwards but luckily this sounds quite different. Looking at the press release it seems The Phynx is a vinyl reissue of their debut CDr which makes sense as it's got a far harsher feel than Beach Head and Boat Trip..He's obviously gone soft in his old age, just a year or so later. On the fantastic first track there's a man hollering, wailing, overloading the mic and distorting all over the place as the music drifts between structure and total formlessness; there's something about the combination of ethnic sounds with atonal abrasion that brings to mind the globetrotting experimentation of prime post-punk and no wave. Most of the LP follows that sort of pattern with his trademark hazy psychedelic drone relegated to the background, although the copious amounts of echo are very much present and correct. We've enjoyed this one lots and lots!

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What their label says...

One of our favourite discoveries of 2008 has their debut CDR reissued on swank vinyl: Long Beach psychonauts Magic Lantern get ranted about a lot by us for their mystic ability to overwhelm and transport, and dont expect that to stop soon. But in the meantime weve had the good fortune to learn about ML guitarist Cameron Stallones solo universe as Sun Araw and, no surprise, the silver apple dont fall too far from the tree (so to speak). Spanning Spacemen 3 garage cosmos, Starving Weirdos coastal s顮ce, and a healthy stratosphere of pan-dimensional astral feedbackers, The Phynx is a fantastic four-track suite that floats freely from form to formlessness in the blink of a third eye. A great journey into white light dirge and dead distortion blues, and as killer a debut full-length as a label/listener/fan/head could hope for. totally recommended...if you dug Beach Head / Boat Trip...limited...etc etc