Already doing the best rounds in internet-land, Dominant Legs (or Ryan William Lynch to his mother) is responsible for some of the most stay-gold, heartwarming and tremulous, sore-souled melody we’ve encountered in quite some time. Songs such as “Young At Love And Life” fit perfectly into a long-mapped tradition of uplifting, infectious but essentially weird-beyond-reason soulful pop music and – as The Fader point out – the forever beautiful, braveheartedly explorative pop inquisitiveness of likeminded California luminaries Arthur Russell and Ariel Pink, as well as the gospel leanings of David Byrne, looms large in the cluster of demos our impressive limbed new hero of believable pop music has gifted the world so far; loitering around leant-back and lovely in the echo-drenched honey of Lynch’s often breath-losing, always painfully sincere vocals; burnt on the tongue of the songs’ plaintive, pure and melancholic lyricism and distant dream-disco flourishes.

San Francisco residents can look to catch Dominant Legs with True Panther championed hometown heroine of ominous and wonderful stormcloud blue-wave Tamaryn and everywhere heroes of everything Girls at one of the latter’s homecoming shows in November. For all-else or until then:

Dominant Legs – Young At Love And Life