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Lucky Number

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about

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 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

credits

released October 31, 2025

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

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Optic Sink Memphis, Tennessee

Optic Sink is the post-punk project from Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS), Ben Bauermeister, and Keith Cooper. 📸 by Nate Packard

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