Despite all the hotlist presence – what the 22-year-old London multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter would now be able to shake out of his sleeve was initially the subject of speculation. Ethan P. Flynn has worked with David Byrne, supporting FKA Twigs as a co-writer. The B-SIDES & RARITIES: VOL. 1 (the title: more of a joke) was tantamount to a psychedelic expedition. Low-key pop music devoted equally to irritation and glamour.
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And now the cartwheel into the next bigger stage. Flynn gives his songs a biblical dimension, taking us like a modern day Noah on the ark moving through what is currently felt like a deluge. Fire and water are the central elements in the darkly flaring tracks, under the rumble of an organ the singer jumps into the first song “Father Of Nine”, a drama king with a broken voice, which tells of the underside of the world, of the thought to death, then he falls deeply and yet gets up again.
UNIVERSAL DELUGE is a big, washed-out sound painting in which electronics and singer/songwriter passages come together again and again. Sometimes Flynn sings to the sound of the bass sides of his guitar, sometimes a song turns surreal and reappears in the here and now as a will-o’-the-wisp. The singer dreams of his existence for a moment, but that’s not the end: “If everyone becomes a ghost / I’ll float out of the room / And we’ll meet again soon” (“Vegas Residency”) .
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