The great West Coast calls to Dominant Legs, and Dominant Legs, in turn, calls San Francisco home. Capitalizing on newfound free-time, as a result of being laid off from his job as an office assistant, Ryan Lynch began to write the glittering ballads and blurred-out pop songs that, with the addition of Hannah Hunt, make Dominant Legs. Lynch and Hunt, both San Francisco Bay Area-natives, were introduced through mutual friends and began collaborating when Hunt moved back to California after studying Architecture in New York. Lynch had been honing the band’s misty, nostalgic sound for a while, experimenting with songwriting as a kid and having spent the previous few years playing guitar in another SF band. Hunt spent her childhood singing and performing; her eternal passion for music led her to dive back in after years of not performing. With Lynch on guitar and vocals, and Hunt on vocals and keys, Dominant Legs’ sincere and dance-y pop songs tap into a sound that is at once naively sweet and self-consciously tragic.

Their first EP, Young at Love and Life, was released on Lefse.

PRESS LINKS

Pitchfork, “Clawing out at the Walls,” mp3
Stereogum, “Make Time For The Boy,” video
Stereogum, “Clawing out at the Walls,” mp3
Stereogum, “Clawing out at the Walls,” mp3
Stereogum, Band to Watch
Stereogum, “Honey Bunny,” video
Stereogum, “Honey Bunny,” video
Stereogum, “Hoop of Love,” video
Stereogum, “Hoop of Love,” mp3
Stereogum, “About My Girls,” mp3
The FADER, “Make Time For The Boy,” video
The FADER, “Where We Trip The Light” (Live in San Francisco), video
The FADER, “Laughing the Whole Time,” mp3
The FADER, “Clawing out at the Walls (Altair Nouveau Remix)”, mp3
The FADER, interview
The FADER, “About My Girls” mp3, “Clawing out at the Walls” video
The FADER, “Clawing out at the Walls,” mp3
The FADER, “Loving Now” (live performance), video
The FADER, “Clawing out at the Walls” mp3, “Just Silly Ones” mp3
The FADER, “Young at Love and Life” mp3, “About My Girls” mp3
Gorilla vs. Bear, “Hoop of Love,” video