Kevin Bronson on August 28th, 2015

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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer/engineer Andrew Lynch has always pushed boundaries, and maybe a few buttons, dating back to his days playing in various L.A. bands and his 2010 solo album “Sun Incisions.” His new guise is the art-pop project Nav/Attack, stylized nav/attack, a completely DIY effort that finds him sparring with both the digital and tactile worlds, exploring the uneasy truce between technology and human consciousness. (Lynch’s nom de tune derives from 1980s “War Games”-like software that uses a computer to locate a target and relay information to its human counterpart.) On “nav/attack” — the debut album due Oct. 2 via Dangerbird Records — Lynch navigates this space by marrying piano, horns, bass and drums with electronic beats, talking computers, vocoders and vintage samplers. The results are cinematic, and in more than an 8-bit way. And speaking of cinema, the first nav/attack video is for the song “Newsbreak,” and it features actor/director/musician Adam Goldberg (Lynch played in his band the Goldberg Sisters). It’s a hoot.

||| Stream: “Tear It”

||| Watch: The video for “Newsbreak”