Lynx live

Lynx
5/21/11 Main Park, Artsposure, Chapel Hill, NC


Lynx is a force to reckon with. The multi-instrumentalist and singer is a varitable one-woman band. Her voice fills a room, even when the room is wall-less park in the middle of downtown Chapel Hill. The woman has a voice, not just literally, but in her engaging since of self as she commands the stage with an unparalleled presence. It's eccentric, her look, her music, the whole package - but it still never waivers from the ebb and flow of human heartbreak.

Armed with an acoustic guitar and an iMac, she creates sinewy worlds and soundscapes that explore loss, love, and occasionally even politics. The California native's set centered mostly on her latest release, "On the Horizon", a sweeping album that critics have been gushing over for months. And it's no secret that as good as she sounds in the studio, she definitely doesn't falter on stage.

The highlights of her, oh too short, hour-long set, were forelorn renditions of "Young Blood" and "Tricksters and Fools" - politically minded tracks that hold our leaders to task without crossing the fragile line into preachy. Her self produced backing tracks, wrap electronica around her traditional bran of coffee shop folk, building a musical tapestry that sucks the audience into her weird little world. And her a-capella/beatbox rendition of "This Is Not a Remix" should hail her as a modern goddess of hip-hop that would put these other fools to shame.

Lynx is an artist that has with a hard-line to human emotion. And her show confirms that's she's a performer whose chemistry will enamor an audience. Definitely not a show to miss.