ARTISTS

Sunglow

Daniel B. Lynch

Genre: Experimental Electronic / Weirdo Pop / Sound Collage
Home: Chicago, Illinois (via) Savannah, Georgia, USA
Associated Acts: The Lipschitz, Bummerville, Cray Bags (FKA Crazy Bag Lady), Greta O & The Toxic Shock
For Fans Of: Fun Dance Music, pilotredsun, OTTO, C418
Favorite B-Ball Player: Horace Grant

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Biography

Daniel B. Lynch, aka Sunglow, is a prolific underground DIY artist born and bread in Savannah, GA.  His musical journey began when he started dabbling in percussion at the tender age of nine (Note: Cray Bags). Besides fooling around with amateur computer software, he continued writing music and in 2012 Sunglow burst into existence with the debut experimental-electronic gem called ’Jalopy’ (reissued January 13th 2015 digitally worldwide, as well as on limited edition cassette by Furious Hooves). In 2014 ’Nothing Doing’ began the weirdo-pop evolution of Sunglow with the use of lyrics and vocals, adding even more flavor to the dance beats. It was released June 3rd 2014 digitally worldwide, as well as on limited edition cassette via Furious Hooves.

After flooding the Savannah streets, parks, and bars with his easily danceable synth-leads & weirdo-pop sounds, Sunglow relocated to Chicago, IL for the next level of weirdo-pop evolution. His third full-length album ‘Great Time of Day’ is lyric-laden and gushing with heavy synth leads that beckon you to dance, while still pulling at his roots of experimental sounds. You may find a new definition for electronic soundscapes in this ‘Great Time of Day.’ It was released August 25th 2017 digitally worldwide, as well as on limited edition cassette via Furious Hooves, completing the trilogy.

After Sunglow saw the release of 2017's 'Great Time of Day,’ Lynch released and toured the debut full-length LP 'Bottom Feeder' (on Graveface Records) as Bummerville in January of 2018. Upon his return, he immediately started collecting music from old hard drives, as well as current song sketches to assemble a new concept Sunglow album called 'Hog Heaven.'

The assembly of 'Hog Heaven' was essential, as the whole of 40 minutes that make up the album display as a continuous flow of sound. The collection works as a song collage, leading the listener thru a soundscape that allows a look at formulated ideas, a glimpse of a structure starting to form – immediately blending to the next cut. Just as in classic photo collage, 'Hog Heaven' is a mash of snippets and cuts of what may be – letting the listener imagine what surrounds those brief experiences in whichever way they should choose, also letting them accept the song in it's current context, as a piece of the whole.

'Hog Heaven' could play out as a direct reflection of Lynch's then recent excursion in packing up shop from his hometown of Savannah, GA and moving to the city of Chicago, IL. It also brought us back to Sunglow’s experimental roots. Released July 28th 2018 digitally worldwide, as well as on limited cassette via Furious Hooves, the fourth full-length plays out as one long sound collage. In (sur)reality it’s 21 “tracks” of trippy, (mostly) instrumental, dancey beats that seem to time-warp our minds directly to this so-called ‘Hog Heaven.’

2020 saw Daniel B. Lynch fulfilling a dream and officially launching Company Businesses Inc™. According to the CBI™ wesbite, they say the following about its formation. “While most of the internal CBI™ operational processes occur and have occured out of the public eye, 2020 saw the launch of the Official Outreach Systems Program after extensive research and development over a 3 year period from 2016-2019. This involved the partnership between a number of anonymous artists platforming the implementation of a 100% to User Based Business Model concerning Audio Fabrication.” On December 7th 2019, Sunglow and CBI™ released ‘SMS001 - Hardness’ which stood for “Sunglow Muzak Systems” – a new subsection of Sunglow music for rare exports and small collections. The first of this series, subtitled ‘Hardness’ is a collection of instrumental pieces performed using samples, beats, electronix, various vinyl noises, all while incorporating Sunglow-patented post-production to form a song collage ala ‘Hog Heaven.’ This album was dedicated by Daniel B. Lynch to “good friend and long time Sunglow exec” Ryan McCardle, co-dude at Furious Hooves, after dealing with a medical emergency just a week prior to release.

2022 saw the first ever collaboration between the two labels (Furious Hooves and Company Businesses Inc™) with ‘Like a Man Overboard Asking for a Drink of Water’, where Sunglow explores rich electronic songwriting, looping, and sampling with each song bursting in individual personality. Washes of rubbery melodies, fuzzy synth swells, and punchy beats oscillate in and out of view as anonymous narrators hum and shout just out of earshot. Interlacing erratic sampling, Sunglow echoes past releases of the last decade, but paves a way into new relaxed sonic territory they are now calling “hypopop.”

Press & Accolades

• Best Local Electronic Artist — 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 — Connect Savannah.

“Although the mood of this album appears to be upbeat, funky and completely danceable at the same time it is grimy and dark…you feel as though you are wading though murky waters and dissolving in and out of the blacker spectrum of the emotional rainbow.  For instance ‘Lacklust’ is a song screaming about frustration but the groove will get you hoppin'…it is a fine example of using music to channel emotions. ‘Vox Coup,’ sounds like a thick python curling around your spine and you are the hypnotized deer… it’s not necessarily a bad sensation.”
– Happy Mag, review of ‘Nothing Doing’ LP.

“Sunglow makes music filled with contradictions—bone-dry electronic beats and liquid, reverb-heavy synths; scratchy, oddball vocal effects that alter catchy melodies; retro synths and contemporary production; pop catharsis and post-punk anxiety. In his new album, all of these opposites attract, merging into a unique sound that is weird and off-kilter, but inviting and immersive. ‘Great Time of Day’ is weird pop—and it’s the best of it.”
– ThrdCoast, review of ‘Great Time of Day’ LP.

“‘Certify My Love’ is the ripe red strawberry centrepiece in the edible arrangement that is Sunglow’s ‘Hog Heaven.’ My first real luv ballad divides the electrocuted collage of a mostly wordless album.”
— Daniel B. Lynch on “Certify My Love” for Midwest Action.

“Daniel is a mastermind producer of playful, inspiring soundscapes that energize and incite. I have been a fan for a while and also could put on any of his records to shift a mood in the room instantaneously. It’s fun, fresh and pure freak mode. Don’t shuffle! Play in suggested record order, the songs are all ‘holding hands.’”
– DEHD’s “Five Favourites” for Get In Her Ears.

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