 
London based singer song writer Rob Lynch has
just put the finishing touches to his debut album
‘All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow Save
My Soul’ and the album is now scheduled
for release on the 22nd September through Xtra
Mile Recordings and it comes after Rob first made
a name for himself on the UK Warped Tour acoustic
which saw him support ex Thursday and current
No Devotion front man Geoff Rickley and since
then he has been in the States playing at every
date of the huge Vans Warped Tour and now he has
a headline UK tour running up to the release before
heading out supporting This Wild Life throughout
September and October.
Work on ‘All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow
Save My Soul’ started in November 2012 as
Rob headed out to Philadelphia and also Hoxton,
East London to record some of the tracks and now
the album is here it is safe to say that Rob Lynch
has opened his heart and created a truly honest
and intimate record which features 12 fantastic
tracks which tell various different stories and
journeys such as themes of death, life on the
road, finding light in times of darkness and so
much more.
The album opens with the short ‘31/32’
a song which as Rob singing about how we should
enjoy the moment that we are living in, the song
is really upbeat and a good opener with Rob singing
“Sing your hearts out, tonight we forget
our problems and in the morning we can work them
out”.
‘Broken Bones’ was originally released
as a single earlier in the year and it is chirpy
number which will leave you clapping along to
the infectious sounds whilst also learning the
meaningful lyrics that Rob wrote for the song
and within moments you will find yourself singing
“Oh lonely road, you always find a way to
bring me crashing down” with such passion.
‘My Friends And I’ is a pure anthemic
number where Rob sings about his friends and all
the good times they have had together and it is
so catchy that you will instantly be humming and
bopping along until you pick up on the well written
lyrics and sing the chorus out as loud as you
can time and time again.
‘Whiskey’ is a song which features
Rob thinking back to a drunken night he had with
his father where they drunk so much Whiskey and
played their favourite songs whilst also losing
a few days in the process, if you really sit back
and take the lyrics in you will realise that ‘Whiskey’
is an extremely personal song to Rob as he sings
about his dad who sadly passed away when Rob was
21 telling the whiskey story to other patients
from his hospital bed.
The album continues to flow in the same way as
it started with Rob singing big honest songs and
the likes of ‘True Romance’, ‘Stamford’,
‘Some Nights’, ‘Blame’
and ‘Widow’ are amongst some of the
best during the later part of the album and what
makes Rob and his songs stand out is the fact
that he wears his heart on his sleeve and writes
about true and honest things and then transforms
the writing into fun melodic songs.
‘All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow Save
My Soul’ is a stunning offering from Rob
Lynch and it really does show off what a great
song writer he is and what he has learnt and experienced
by being on the road touring for so long and if
he sticks to what he’s doing then he could
easily follow in the footsteps of Frank Turner
who has worked his way up from toilet sized venues
to selling out arenas all over the UK.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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