Part of the lo-fi bedroom pop collective that included Real Estate, Ducktails, and Alex Bleeker & the Freaks, New Jersey native Julian Lynch also began making woozy, home-recorded pop sounds, often in collaboration with his peers. Over the course of several albums, his sonic vocabulary would grow from hazy bedroom jams into a refined approach to arrangement and songwriting that drew from a growing expertise in ethnomusicology. In 2016, Lynch joined longtime friends Real Estate, replacing founding guitarist Matthew Mondanile. Even with this new role in a highly active band, he ...