Shipping Estimate
USA
- USA
- CAN
- USA
- CAN
Ships within 48 hours · Estimated delivery Jul 15 - Jul 20
For Your Every Summer RSVP, with Code: SUMMER15
Description
Optic Sink – Lucky Number – New LPReleases ships October 31, 2025 Lucky Number by Optic Sink< a> Lucky Number, the third album from Memphis trio Optic Sink, finds the band both refining and expanding their hypnotic mix of post punk and dance music, resulting in a sharp and moving exploration of surfaces, shadows, and self delusion. Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) has come into her full power as a lyricist. Her work on earlier
Releases/ships October 31, 2025
Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) has come into her full power as a lyricist. Her work on earlier records (see “Modelesque” and “Glass Blocks”) shows her talent for exploring the hidden shallows of modern life, but here the funhouse mirrors are balanced by painful longing and drops of truth
that leak through the cracks. The music reflects this—under Bauermeister’s driving grooves and the songs’ tight arrangements lurk hidden complexities, thanks in part to Keith Cooper’s exceptional, angular work on guitar and bass.
“Unreachable / untouchable space / glass tower / a fragile face / when you’re here / where do you go?” Hoffmann sings over the sinister, nocturnal funk of “Construction.” Few bands can match the hard beauty of Depeche Mode, New Order, and A Certain Ratio—Optic Sink
manages to do more than that, adding their own sad, cutting wisdom.
Produced and recorded by Caufield Schnug of Sweeping Promises, Lucky Number is out Fall 2025 on Feel It Records.
-Dan Hornsby of True Green/author of Sucker and Via Negativa
Recorded and produced by Caufield Schnug
Mastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering
Album artwork by Natalie Hoffmann
Additional vocals on Don't Look Down, Kinetic World and Laughing Backwards and additional synth on Golden Hour by Lira Mondal
Vibraphone on Kinetic World, Luxury of Honesty and Golden Hour by Jackson Graham
Optic Sink is:
Natalie Hoffmann
Ben Bauermeister
Keith Cooper
Special thanks to Greg Cartwright
Memphis synth punk without the trash-stomp garage-rock abandonment many have come to associate with that Tennessee town, Optic Sink cold and calculated as an Akron robot typing messages on an electric teletype, cracking a Moroder power-line like a Morricone bullwhip, but still analog warm and organic as skin on a knuckle, a brass-knuckle sandwich electricity into your ear, twisting up the knob on the space heater to warm up the vacuum tubes and cold space suits hanging in the back of the garage, Natalie Hoffmann (Nots) vocals, guitars, art w/ Ben Bauermeister (Magic Kids) drums, and Keith Cooper (Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks, I assume), bass. Loads of synth electricity filling the sounds, like icicles on slate rooftops, strong and fragile, sharp and melting, dripping mineral water on fluorescent lamps and power circuits, Hoffman's guitar and Cooper's bass helping pulsate the rhythms into your ears, exotica percussion and electro funk mixed with bits of early mid-60s secret agent elbowing its way into the sound, shards of spaceage rock piercing into the skin, all the sounds wound up tight and the band working together wonderfully, twisting rhythms into your eardrums like wires wrapping around glass power pole insulators ... surrender and let Optic Sink knot their rhythms around your ankles and up and down your Frankenstein spine, let go of the railing and bop your noggin like the heads of the Peanuts dancing away the holidays...become a puppet riding on the pulse and electricity of Optic Sink. -- winch
Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Caufield Schnug in Lawrence, KS
A Silver Key Can Open An Iron Lock, Somewhere originally written and performed by LiLiPUT
Album art by Natalie Hoffmann
Shipping Notes
- Free Standard Shipping on $100+ Orders to the USA.
- Except Preorder products are shipped in 48 hours.
- Delivery to the USA:
- Standard Shipping : 3-10 business days
- If time is of the essence, please consider selecting expedited delivery for faster service.
Exchange/Return Notes
- We offer a 30-day return/exchange service after receiving.
- Final sale items are not eligible for returns or exchanges.
- To process your return/exchange, please contact us at [email protected]
- Please click here for more details>>> Return & Exchange Policy