LYNKS lets the mask drop for their personal dance-pop debut, ‘ABOMINATION’. Words: Ciaran Picker. Photos: Mars Washington.

If an example was ever needed to show how far genre has broken down in recent years, look no further than Lynks. Ostensibly a dance-pop act, they’ve featured on tracks with punk-rockers Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, toured with thrash-punk icons Amyl and the Sniffers, and featured on art-pop hero Christine and the Queens’ curated line-up for 2023’s Meltdown festival. On debut album ‘ABOMINATION’, all of these disparate strands combine to create a knockout record that will have you crying in the club, murdering the dancefloor, and calling your ex-situationship to see if they’re still up.

Lynks was born in the dark, sweaty corners of Bristol’s nightclubs, taking freedom, liberation, and a heaped spoonful of queer joy and smashing the concepts together, the result being something unlike anything else on the scene. Combining, in their own words, a “compulsive addiction to RuPaul’s Drag Race” and a sharply Gen-Z message, Lynks breaks the mould as the best (and maybe only) pop star to ever grace the stage in custom-made and gorgeously garish gimp suits.

‘ABOMINATION’ is the most intimate Lynks has been yet, exploring the sad dangers of London’s gay dating scene, inbuilt shame about their own sexuality, and fear that this fifteen minutes of fame is about to come to an end. It wouldn’t be a Lynks record, though, without a good slathering of humour, wit, promiscuity, and sickening floor fillers.

“It’s good that music seems to be working because I’d be a therapist otherwise, and I just can’t be serious about anything,” Lynks giggles, thus proving their own point. “The hardest moments in life are always the funniest for me; I guess you could say something like ‘tragedy is the richest well for humour’ if you wanted to.” It’s this inbuilt ability to turn negative situations to their advantage that has made Lynks so popular. That, along with the tireless work that the musician behind the mask, Elliott, put into making Lynks a success. “I wrote the album in 2022 in my bedroom and basically just sent it to a whole load of record labels.”