These Are Not Fall Colors
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{{Infobox album
| name = These Are Not Fall Colors
| type = Studio
| artist = Lync
| cover = tanfc.jpg
| alt =
| released = July 25, 1994{{Cite web |title=These Are Not Fall Colors, by Lync |url=https://lync1994.bandcamp.com/album/these-are-not-fall-colors |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Lync |language=en}}
| recorded = Spring – Summer 1994
| venue =
| studio = John and Stu's Place in Seattle, Washington
| genre = Post-hardcore, emo
| length = {{Duration|m=42|s=32}}
| label = K Records
| producer = Calvin Johnson, Lync, Phil Ek, Tim Green
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Remembering the Fireballs (Part 8)
| next_year = 1997
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r203520|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
|rev2 = Pitchfork
}}
These Are Not Fall Colors is the only studio album by the American post-hardcore group Lync.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lync-mn0000803075/biography|title=Lync | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2010/11/23/schnippers-slept-on-lyncs-fall-colors|title=Schnipper’s Slept On: Lync’s Fall Colors|website=The FADER}} The album was released on K Records in 1994.{{Cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-11-04-9411030386-story.html|title=BANDS TAKE A SINGULAR ATTITUDE|website=OrlandoSentinel.com}}
Critical reception
The A.V. Club wrote: "Cemented together with ragged, ambient loops of spoken-word samples and guitar feedback, the album's 10 tracks swell and collapse in spasms of alternating beauty, confusion, joy, and skull-scraping noise."{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/lync-these-are-not-fall-colors-1798211194|title=Lync: These Are Not Fall Colors|website=Music}} Trouser Press deemed the album "not really good, but far from bad," writing that it is "the kind of slackadaisical debut that raises more questions about the band’s intentions and abilities than it answers."{{cite web |title=Lync |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/lync/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=11 November 2020}} Pitchfork wrote that the album "unspools like a collection of song sketches, half-formed ideas that members Sam Jayne, James Bertram, and Dave Schneider pummeled into working shape."{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9932-the-50-best-indie-rock-albums-of-the-pacific-northwest/|title=The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest|website=Pitchfork}}
Track list
{{track listing
|collapsed =
|headline =
|all_writing = Lync
|title1 = B
|length1 = 4:31
|title2 = Perfect Shot
|length2 = 3:32
|title3 = Silverspoon Glasses
|length3 = 4:21
|title4 = Pennies to Save
|length4 = 4:06
|title5 = Clay Fighter
|length5 = 3:57
|title6 = Cue Cards
|length6 = 4:11
|title7 = Angelfood Fodder and Vitamins
|length7 = 3:48
|title8 = Heroes and Heroines
|length8 = 3:12
|title9 = Turtle
|length9 = 4:09
|title10 = Uberrima Fides
|length10 = 6:46
}}
Personnel
; Lync
- Sam Jayne – vocals, guitar
- James Bertram – bass guitar, vocals
- Dave Schneider – drums
; Other musical personnel
- John Atkins – vocals on "Angelfood Fodder and Vitamins"
- Tim Green - Moog synthesizer
; Production
- Lync – producer, engineer, mixing
- Calvin Johnson – producer, engineer, mixing
- Phil Ek – producer, engineer, mixing
- Tim Green – producer, engineer, mixing
- Josh Warren – photography
- Jeremiah Green - artwork
References
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