women - public strain

it is good. a lot of the trebly/spiky interlocking guitar parts that i loved about women, maybe more like a 70s british punk thing going, i dunno. more pop moments early on. love the noisier later stuff (structureless design, select your drone). looking forward to hearing more stuff though. hope that track on the soundcloud comes out on something

Yeah man digging that "Bunker Buster" song a bunch. Kinda guitar band I can totally get behind. Good trick to pull both in Women and this band is how they manage to make off-kilter knotty riffs seem really unforced and catchy as hell (at least to me).

It's not very cohesive but I like pretty much all the songs. "Select Your Drone" is great, the first part reminds me of "Before I Lose My Style" by the Space Needle which is one of my all-time favorite songs.

Also reminds me of a more lo-fi/punk Enon, oddly enough, might just be the affected accent.

Cool, I like that Space Needle song as well, though I haven't heard it in ages. Still, will dig deeper with this Viet Cong stuff at some point. Don't like the vocals as much as Women, but maybe it'll grow on me. The guitars are mainly what I am after though.

viet cong - continental strain

is straight up lansing-dreiden, but forgiven because it's more or less just as good as lansing-dreiden

i don't know how much it's worth but i think Women will be remembered for being one of the only unique rock bands of this era.

both records are classic...

and it's so much more than "sonic youth/velvet underground-ripoff material"

i could go on and on about this band but suffice to say i agree, their music is going to hold up.

there's just so many genres they blended together. it's more than post-punk even. there's elements of post-hardcore, math rock, minimalism, art rock etc

they were a little bit genius, it needs to be said.

I don't think anybody's topped Public Strain since it came out

rip women

lucky to have seen them a couple times

saw Cindy Lee last night, heard some of my favorite live guitar ever. also loved the insistence on separating the guitar playing (seated) from the singing (standing w/out guitar), to the point of multiple quick transitions per song. a lot of it had the air of a staged rehearsal, Cindy Lee the great improviser.

really enjoying this new cindy lee today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi5na897Y

^new Cindy Lee LP is a stunner.

two hours!

woah

I'll freely admit that Women/Viet Cong/Pre-Occupations/whatever didn't do much for me at the time and I even lived in Calgary when they were very much a thing (maybe I should revisit?) but this new album really is something special

great record. having a hard time getting ‘kingdom come’ out of my head

It's hard to describe beyond being an eerie '60s slowdance genre pastiche, but it's done in a way that feels so spare and so tender and hollowed-out and *sustained* that it really connects for me. It just keeps hitting these dark parts of my mind in sweet, unsettling ways. Naked. Or voyeuristic. Or something up that dark metaphorical alleyway.

i'm sorry to admit i've cooled considerably on this since first listen. idk, maybe because it's super long? i'm afraid to listen to it a third time now

a lot of fun ideas here, and a super creative record, though.

This could be the best original album ever to be pushing 2 hrs in length

seems about right

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee answers the question what if the most faded 50s girl group / post-punk band forgotten by history played a sock hop in the town from Blue Velvet & introduced the villagers to guitar tones & krautrock jams that would kill a Victorian child

— Good Willsmith (@GoodWillsmith) April 5, 2024

should I start a new thread about this album

Obsessed with this record

lol