Anymore For Lunch

Lunch are an especially interesting and an especially American band. Whereas Joy Division and the early Factory Records roster provides the template for so many of the newer dark postpunk acts, with Lunch there is a definite turn towards US bands like the Gun Club and the Wipers. None of this is to say that the influences of British or other styles of postpunk don’t weigh in here. There are strains of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and The Sound in their sound, too.

A lot of newer postpunk revivalist bands try to achieve a cold, distant, despondent European sound (the sounds of grey and rainy Manchester, England circa 1979, perhaps) Lunch actually have a warm, even subtly sexual, intonation to their songs. They’re still as gloomy and introspective as the best of them, but Lunch do this in an interesting way that at once pulls elements from bands like The Chameleons (“Script of the Bridge”), The Sound (“From the Lion’s Mouth”), the Wipers, the Gun Club, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (“Talk About the Weather”), with the American influences especially at the fore. Not a bad set of comparisons at all, I would submit. In more contemporary terms, the influence of the Spectres (“Last Days”), the Estranged, Bellicose Minds (“The Spine”), and even Shadowhouse seem to figure into the mix, although Shadowhouse vocalist Shane’s deep vox are more Glenn Danzig-y than what Promoetheus Wolf has going on here.

Ripped from the vinyl album by A N Other blog to FLAC

Lunch; Let Us Have Madness Openly

A1.  Marble Foyer

A2.  Flat Circles

A3.  Brand New Shirt

A4.  For Someone Else

A5.  Madness Openly

B1.  Not An Ocean

B2.  Pouring Light

B3.  Witch’s Apartment

B4.  Bad Cut

B5.  A Closet Freezes