Lost On Campus, aka Rob Lynch, is another of the current crop of happy, go lucky acoustic-based artist that this country seems to have always been pretty successful at churning out for the last couple of years. Having played with him and being damn impressed, I was keen to give this here 5 track EP a review. It’s out on Lab records, it’s just been released. That brings you up to scratch I think.
I have to say, Rob sounds a little bit like the geezer from the Wombats. The tunes on offer are all single guitar/vocal songs, saturated with keyboard noise afterwards, which keeps it sounding a bit more angular than most of LOC’s contemporaries (OK, not Leftover Crack‘s contemporaries). The choruses stick in your head and there is just a slight sense of melancholy about the whole thing.
The lyrics aren’t going to offer you some kind of epiphany and there is nothing overtly original about this, but you believe every chord and every syllable, which isn’t always the case with the solo stuff that is more NME than Last Hours. LOC will go far, I’m sure.
Mike