Good Serious Fun, by Flynn Mchardy

Good Serious Fun

by Flynn Mchardy

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Power Sherlock Listening to this post surgery, and all the things they give you with that, is like becoming all of NASA and every expedition they have ever done all at once + whatever else they have planned. Astonishing ✨💫🪐 Favorite track: World of purple.

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	1.	People playing on top of each other? 08:51
	2.	My fellow man with neck sleeves and eyes! 03:47
	3.	A short enough day... 11:42
	4.	...And a very long night 20:23
	5.	So, I've had some thoughts about sound 02:02
	6.	World of purple 08:37

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Good Serious Fun comes as a recent instalment of Flynn McHardy’s solo sonic endeavours. He currently performs as part of Manchester-based trad folk group Brown Wimpenny, in which he plays guitar and is also a constituent part of acclaimed children's music quintet Hedgehog. With his musical sensibilities formed in appreciation and performance of improvised and rock music respectively, McHardy’s solo work acts as a space, aside from his various collaborative projects, to reflect on how you listen to music.
Broken into six tracks, Good Serious Fun plunges you through a flurry of conflicting sonic environments. You traverse a cacophony of melodic bleeping and scrambled clangs, before finding solace in the serene ambiance of a delightful park. Feelings of awe and sentimentality shatter, hurling you into damp caverns of whirling echoes. Grating drilling erupts, throwing you into the busy sounds of bus conversations and singing street performers. You may question why you must suffer through seemingly perpetual incongruency, but the album offers the listener some recompense through the recurrent use of field recordings, embedded amid the granular chaos. Taken as a whole, Good Serious Fun operates via a symbiosis that condensely oozes sublimity and a sense of play.

Words by Kris Cooper

Recorded and composed in Manchester from June 2022 to August 2023
Various Sounds recorded at...

Platt Fields park (2022)
Conversations on the 142 Bus (2023)
Practice rooms at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama (2023)
Victoria Road (2022)
Open rehearsal upstairs at Fuel Café Bar (2022)
Building works outside the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama (2023)
Street performer at Piccadilly Gardens (2023)

Mastered by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

Thanks to Arthur and Will for their continued support

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released January 26, 2024

design: Tony Lugo

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