Lyndhurst

Lyndhurst are a new UK duo consisting of long-time musical collaborators Oscar Ball and Dan Carney. Their output as Lyndhurst - a project born from working together on library music for the Universal Production Music imprint Lo Editions - is hooky and unnerving in equal measure; a compelling blend of electronica, post-rock, soundtrack, lo-fi, psych, jazzy weirdness, enticing melodies, and strange drones, loops, and noises. Sunken rhythms and smashed fanfares to make you feel slightly different.

Their debut EP, the six-track ‘Platforms’, will be available across digital platforms from 14th July. It features the singles ‘Swimming’ - a warm electronic hug combining brain-burrowing melodies with pulsing bass textures - and ‘Transcriptor’, in which hypnotic glockenspiel loops and clarinet harmonies build slowly into a dramatic polyrhythmic freak-out.

Elsewhere, the minor key synth loops and downbeat percussion of ‘North Circular’ open out – via a disquieting ranting preacher sample - into a gorgeous, floating oboe coda, while the sparse ‘Interlude Rhythm’ offers an austere, head-nodding pallet cleanser. ‘Group Of Three’ – with its jazzy whacked out atmospherics – slows things down, before the ominous drone fanfare of ‘First Ever Thing’ rises gradually to a raucous but melodic conclusion.

We like ‘Platforms’ very much, and hope you do too. Oscar and Dan are available for interviews, playlists, and luxury product endorsements.

A second six-track EP, ‘Caves’, is currently scheduled for November.