nav/attack

For the better part of the past few years, nav/attack, aka Andrew Lynch, has worked with some of the biggest names in music. He engineered projects for Sia, John Cale, Earlimart and OFF!, has recorded music for film and has been in several bands as well. Today, we're excited to help unveil nav/attack's latest, self-titled album, which will be released next Friday. As you listen, you'll hear sparkly synths along with carefully crafted cinematic lyrics that flow perfectly with the drum machines that comprise the foundation for the sound. Add to that equation intricate instruments like trumpets, pianos and the bass, then you have a colorful recipe for success beyond its art pop roots.

"Throughout time, technological advances had been limited to the physical world, things like the wheel—strictly a tool to be used," Lynch says. "But once we hit the Information Age, technology started profoundly changing how we interact with each other and slowly taking over our collective consciousness. Devices are no longer simply tools, we are letting them become parts of the human identity in a way that alarms me.

"The name nav/attack came as I was developing the record. My home studio configuration already reminded me of a fighter cockpit—one guy surrounded by vintage music tech. As I sat there day after day interacting with all these machines, sometimes winning and sometimes losing, it felt a bit like war.

"The material on the record was inspired by a screenplay I had been working on for years, about a guy who rents out his brain to advertisers so they can sell their products surreptitiously. When I wrote the song “Newsbreak," this local TV correspondent character Edward Eagle—who would later be played by my pal Adam Goldberg—came into being and inspired me to get the visuals on screen somehow. So I adapted the whole thing and directed a series of six music videos for this record.

"The sessions for the record were done mostly at my home studio, while drums were recorded at Aaron Espinoza's studio The Ship and at Dave Trumfio's Kingsize Soundlabs. Besides “Newsbreak," which was recorded almost entirely with iPhone Apps, all of the songs were written on piano and overdubbed with live drums by Denny Weston Jr. and Steven Nistor. My friend Robert Douglas played bass, I played some bass—just trying to keep it human. In the production setting, computers are great tools, but they need our human sounds and our unconventional thinking, otherwise we sound like them."

nav/attack's self-titled album is out now on Dangerbird Records. - Pure Volume

RIYL: Tame Impala, Foxygen, Ra Ra Riot
TRY: #3, 4, 7, 10, 1

Download full album here:
https://www.piratepirate.com/downloads/

More Info Here:
http://www.navattack.com/
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http://dangerbirdrecords.com/artists/navattack/