viet cong - continental strain
is straight up lansing-dreiden, but forgiven because it's more or less just as good as lansing-dreiden
― imago, Monday, 29 December 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
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"
― hackshaw, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
i could go on and on about this band but suffice to say i agree, their music is going to hold up.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
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
― hackshaw, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
rip women
lucky to have seen them a couple times
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 22:00 (nine months ago) link
really enjoying this new cindy lee today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi5na897Y
― pitted (blue6ave), Sunday, 31 March 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link
^new Cindy Lee LP is a stunner.
― ripersnifle, Monday, 1 April 2024 23:41 (one month ago) link
two hours!
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 04:14 (one month ago) link
woah
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 04:29 (one month ago) link
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
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 04:36 (one month ago) link
great record. having a hard time getting ‘kingdom come’ out of my head
― devvvine, Friday, 5 April 2024 07:35 (one month ago) link
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.
― mike powell, Friday, 5 April 2024 22:10 (one month ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2024 00:44 (one month ago) link
a lot of fun ideas here, and a super creative record, though.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2024 00:46 (one month ago) link
This could be the best original album ever to be pushing 2 hrs in length
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:39 (one month ago) link
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
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 7 April 2024 00:32 (one month ago) link
Obsessed with this record
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 7 April 2024 00:33 (one month ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:23 (one month ago) link