Spacecase Records

“A Face in the Crowd” is the new 7” from Memphis’ Optic Sink. The group features Natalie Hoffmann (Nots), Ben Bauermeister (Magic Kids) and Keith Cooper (The Sheiks). Optic Sink released their well-received debut LP with Goner in 2020. For fans of synth-punk/minimalist-synth acts like Oppenheimer Analysis, The Petticoats, and Robert Rental and Thomas Leer.

Limited to 300 copies.

This is the new single from OPTIC SINK, a band that takes a very minimalist approach to synth punk and who released their debut album in 2020 through Goner Records. Side A, “A Face in the Crowd,” reminds me of OMD’s “The New Stone Age” being channeled by the URINALS, while Side B, “Landscape Shift,” could have come straight out of Mute Records in the late ’70s, but not really, because it’s timeless—it actually inhabits a dimension of its own where some transhumans invited you to dance in a club that is a white room floating in the eternal ether of creation. It is really good.
-Miguel Franco, maximum Rocknroll