Dominant Legs is the project of Ryan William Lynch, with a little help from the alliterated Hannah Hunt. They make fragile pop songs that sound like Arthur Russell covering Aztec Camera’s back catalogue. Perhaps this is how Roddy Frame’s early recordings would have sounded if he’d grown up in San Francisco instead of East Kilbride. The music also shares a little of Ariel Pink’s misty eighties nostalgic spirit. See if you like it (you will, you fucking cynic) by listening to the track below.

Dominant Legs, “Young at Love and Life” (Demo)

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Being the multimedia web titans that we at Vice are, we’re also including a YouTube video that’s been made for the song “Just Silly Ones”. It proves that Ryan Lynch not only writes really great songs, but he also had some really shitty haircuts throughout his youth. Perhaps it’s the memory of these which fuels the melancholy that haunts his music.

JOEL WRIGHT