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BRONCHO’s Ryan Lindsey on Fatherhood, The Flaming Lips & The Band’s New Album
'Natural Pleasure,' BRONCHO's first album in seven years, is a hazy, dreamy, organic-sounding record that lives up to its name.
BRONCHO’s frontman, guitarist and primary songwriter Ryan Lindsey is walking around a room in his new Tulsa, Oklahoma home with a yardstick over his shoulder while somehow conducting a Zoom interview. Unlike its previous release, 2018’s Bad Behavior, which offered up a harder-edged blues-washed sound, or its bop-tastic 2014 indie classic single, “Class Historian,” Natural Pleasure is a hazy, dreamy, organic sounding confection where the music takes center stage, and the lyrics can be harder to determine than The Kingsmen’s version of “Louie Louie.” Although BRONCHO’s muscular rhythm section — drummer Nathan Price and bassist Penny Pitchlynn — front the mix, Lindsey’s whispery falsetto and his and Ben King’s gentle guitar work set the tone for a soothing, record that’s perfect for these troubled times. As he wandered his Imagination Station, Lindsey told Billboard why five years elapsed between Bad Behavior and Natural Pleasure, how fatherhood has affected his artistic process, and recalled his trippy visit to Elvis Presley’ s Graceland.
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