My cognitive neurons have been ra-tat-tating in overdrive since hearing Logan Lynn’s emo-lectro diorama From Pillar to Post in June. Now, after what seems an eternity, the album will finally be released on November 24th nationwide (there has been an exclusive pre-release on Lynn’s Web site for a couple of months as well…for those of us who may or may not have been indulging in the pee-pee dance).

Let the suspense strip away like aged wallpaper. Let Lynn’s musings, once and for all, and officially, be unearthed into the fickle mire of the music community at large. Let “Feed Me to the Wolves” become your new wintry Northwest anthem.

“How?” you ask. “How, Ryan? HOW might I liberate my hips? When can I allow my ears to discern the aural profundity of Lynn’s minimalist ruse? Where might I see the man in the flesh, to implore his presence next to mine? Why are you dragging this out longer than a Dick Nixon alibi? Do you even HAVE a life, dear sir?”

“I will not dignify that with a response,” I retort in true Tricky Dick homage.

Sunday, November 22nd, at Jinx (232 NW 12th), Lynn’s label, Beat the World Records  – run by the Dandy Warhols – is throwing him a Listening Party! DJ Rescue (the vivacious Zia from the Dandys) will man the faders and twist the grooves, and guess what? The whole damned thing is free!

Starts at 8:00 p.m. You must be 21 and over.

For S’s and G’s, I’m posting a review I wrote on the album after the jump. For more information, check out my interview with Lynn from earlier this year.

Logan Lynn
From Pillar to Post
Beat the World Records

Where Logan Lynn excels on his debut Beat the World full-length, From Pillar to Post, is not as readily accessible as the genre in which his music resides might allude to. Were it simply a raved-up dissertation concerning the trappings of the emo generation (a term Lynn actually embraces), it might be dubbed a hybrid anomaly, pitting two oft-divided musical milieus into one, shattering a once-proverbial mold. But Pillar… does more than that. Opener “Feed Me to the Wolves” writhes with industrial-rock melancholia, with Lynn’s lethargic monotone repeating, “I won’t stop until I find a way to make you stay.”
Dance jams like “Alone Together” offer respite from the gloom, but only if you aren’t paying attention — like adding layers to a wedding cake, Lynn adds frighteningly catchy minor chord sediments to already shaky bedrock. When you reach the album’s finale — among the busy, ambient blips on “The Dotted Line” — Lynn bellows robotically the line, “It’s so hard to say goodbye.” He’s right; listening to Pillar… poses an awfully disheartening conundrum: Should I keep listening to such personal expression? And just as a savage stares at the sun despite the spots, you will listen to Lynn despite the sadness.
– Ryan J. Prado