ON HER NEW EP Information, Lynnae Gryffin uses the jagged sounds of rock music to make expansive, smeared landscapesâmuch like if she were using the pulpy juice of wild berries as watercolors.
The EPâs four songs temper harsh guitar tones with production effects that sound sampled from windswept moors. Untamed, angular guitar joltingly stops and starts throughout the first two tracksâitâs as though itâs following pages that have been torn from a book and rearranged into a surreal narrative thatâs anything but linear.
Gryffin channels Imogen Heap on slow-burning standout âNorahâs Songâ with layered, echoing vocals that sound like theyâre bubbling up from deep-sea canyons. She repeatedly sings âI did not tame the wild around meâ over random bursts of percussion that illuminate new corners of this vast sonic wilderness. Itâs the EPâs campfire song, and Gryffin surrounds herself with sprawling, orchestral noises that both dwarf and amplify her voice with booming resonance.
Closing track âSandâ is built on simple, fiery riffs and drums that sound like a clenched fist. Gryffinâs vocals resonate with similar resistanceâshe handles each word with what sounds like reverence and revulsion as she sings, âI know I must belong/Like we all must belong/With or without you,â transforming the singular word âbelongâ into a subplot that has its own transfixing control.
Gryffinâs Information EP is just four tracks long, but each one sounds like an excursion into a newfound micro-universeâit reaches far beyond the limits of its length and into fantastical realms.
