www.lansing-dreiden.com/
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
hmm, are you sure you aren't in the band?
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
i don't know anything about Kemado. i googled them and it seems they may be linked to Palm Pictures somehow. i can't look at their website cuz it's too high tech for me.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Maria D., Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
If anyone wants to buy copies, ebay is currently good for getting them cheap
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=lansing+dreiden
― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― gazuga (gazuga), Monday, 24 May 2004 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki_burger (chaki), Monday, 24 May 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― milaca, Monday, 24 May 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 28 July 2005 07:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
it's a scam!!
― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
The A Sectioned Beam EP is also quite good, if you're looking for a taste before trying the album.
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
as for the lansing-dreiden-artband-spectacular, i listened to the "glass corridor" mp3 on their site, and it's rather nice.
― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 28 July 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Article Response: Lansing-Dreiden - 'The Incomplete Triangle'
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 28 July 2005 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Hyperbolic and possibly untrue press-notes to follow:
"Lansing-Dreiden enters 2006 with The Dividing Island, an album that realizes the company's potential in new, transcendent ways. The Dividing Island is Lansing-Dreiden's second full-length album and it will be out May 9th. Its first full-length, The Incomplete Triangle, was self-released in 2003 and was hailed in the pages of Spin Magazine as "dreamy space rock... with a psychedelic metal twist." The Incomplete Triangle was followed by an EP, A Sectioned Beam, praised by Time Out New York as "an airtight example of textbook pop perfection." Both titles were reissued by Kemado Records in 2004.
With The Dividing Island, Lansing-Dreiden explores the theme of division. The titular island divides; the album's lyrics and music point at this process from various angles, illustrating the emergence of two sides, and a line in between. This scenario appears simple enough, but is deceptively so-in the world depicted by Lansing-Dreiden, division and duality are not necessarily states of distinct sides. Progression and regression intermingle, ascension and descension flip-flop. Against this complex landscape, Lansing-Dreiden builds a brilliant and perplexing album, one possessing a wealth of possible interpretations.
What is the dividing island? The album's lyrics paint a picture not of a specific place, but of a general, nebulous state of opposition; yet out of this abstract milieu, concrete meanings may also be derived. "Cement to Stone" and "A Line You Can Cross" -two songs whose lyrics tell of edges, angles, and horizon lines-both feature dueling vocals, lows and highs, suggesting accounts of the lines between men and women. "One For All" and "Dethroning The Optimyth" conjure images of war by way of lines like "Twin black wings descend on me/ Finish me," against others such as "Much before the sword's satisfied/ You can make the whole thing right."
Musically, the theme of division is set forth in the opening track, "Dividing Island," which consists of two completely contrasting sections, sharing only lyrical and melodic phrases. This song begins with lush, languid waves of psychedelia, breaking abruptly into an exuberant, exhilarating call-to-arms. If these two parts represent the two halves of a dividing whole -a dividing island-Lansing-Dreiden reunites the island, revealing the oneness of the parts by using them to build a cohesive, infectious song.
This pattern pervades The Dividing Island. Many of the album's songs weave disparate musical elements into intensely familiar yet uncategorizable wholes. The modern mixes with the archaic, the known with the unknown. On "One For All," a traditional pop/R&B song is layered with darker sounds, alien to that genre -ominous chords, ghostly harmonies, and a recurring drum sample evoking the sound of gunfire. "Dethroning The Optimyth" tempers a power-metal assault with angelic vocals. Elsewhere, jangly guitar hooks are soured by dissonant keyboard swells; electronic cadences rattle along beside acoustic drum breaks; vocals soar, warm and emotive yet mysteriously veiled. Culling irresistible sounds from rock, pop, R&B, soul, metal, and beyond, Lansing-Dreiden reconfigures the divided into unpredictable, utterly unique sums.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
This is obviously a hidden message to Kemado Records: Don't spend too much money on The Sword! Our album is really cool too!
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Culling irresistible sounds from rock, pop, R&B, soul, metal, and beyond
...might as well have been a PR release point from them circa 1995.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
MY EYES ARE BURNING
"The Incomplete Triangle" was really good though, so I still want to hear the new one. More Boo Radleys, less "Movement"-era New Order sounds accurate.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― bell labs (bell_labs), Friday, 3 March 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway, it's good! the first song is killer. as is the last song. i need to dig into it more. the production is great. lots of cool sounds dropping in and out of the mix. i think you'll like it, tim. i need to listen more though.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― city of gyros (chaki), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
That dude used to be a manager at the Oyster Bar
― calstars, Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
That Ott review of this record is still infuriating. I love this album.
― yesca, Sunday, 3 July 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
Jorge Elbrecht has a new album. It's very LD!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
cool!
― imago, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
bumping cuz everyone should listen to this
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
ooh thanks for the tip
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
His trio of songs with Ariel pink a couple years ago are my favorite things of his
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
OK let's do this
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 10:43 (six years ago) link
Segue between first two tracks was so smooth I didn't notice it
Is this...prog?
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link
i like this one from last year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJuHTfndtx0
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
this could almost be an L-D track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pNue_9c0ao
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Those are bonus tracks on the Spotify version I think!
This album is quite something except for a lull 2/3 of the way through
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
yeah, i would totally buy this cd. if there is a cd to buy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFZJuzcc23Q
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
some of the vocals can do that meandering thing that is less than memorable. but that's not a deal-breaker for me.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
vinyl is already sold out. oh well.
https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/here-lies
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
i like the section 25 female vox on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ulu2Iw28Es
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
can't believe i started this thread 14 years ago.
First two tracks, Guillotine and Rainbow Skies are my favourite so far
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
L-D always struck me as a really good way to plunder the 80s - by making it uncanny and intense. There's so much dull 80s plundering at the moment so it's nice Jorge has come back
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
none of the other 80s-apers had that kind of production that L-D had. it made their sound more mythical somehow. it was kinda fucked up sounding. half digital and half echo chamber.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
yeah exactly. so uncanny. this album adds to it by subtly changing the songs as they progress. really interesting
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
'mythical' is a really good way to put it
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
omg That Will Slowly Unwind is amazing, why isn't it on the album proper
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Oh I've worked out why I don't like Words Never Fail To Fail! It's a dead-on Blue Nile impression! I just listened to it while walking through London in the rain and my heart stirred not a whit. You'll all love it though. As a bonus, the next track is a fairly decent impression of Love Song by The Cure. Album's amazing apart from that
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
I guess WNFTF has some nice XTC harmonies in amongst the sheer Paul Buchanan-ness of it all, at least
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
i sent him a FB friend request. i want to ask him about the possibility of a CD release. with a bonus disc. i'm not a big online listener. i wonder how many records he pressed? probably not a lot.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
i wonder if i would dig the Violens stuff more now. i'll bet i would. i just listened to this one and it reminded me of cass mccombs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90FeqsxnR0
― scott seward, Friday, 9 March 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
I quite like WNFTF now ffs
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
finally listening now.
I've been feeling like there's something in vocal melodies and harmonies that I think Django Django do similarly, sort of Zombies-esque
― dan selzer, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
He’s great with collaborators, less so when he tackles everything himself
― calstars, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
Yes! I thought Zombies at one point too!
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
I think during Flesh To Ash
― imago, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
I can't get over the segue between the first two tracks on this
― imago, Sunday, 11 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
the Zombies one is Undiscerning Masses btw
― imago, Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
my favorite l-d bit is still how the first track on the dividing island turns into a who song halfway through for no reason
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
Guitar heroics on “eternal lie” ftw
― zalstarz (calstars), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
Sent Elbrecht a note telling him how much I like the new album and asking about a repress. He replied that there’s no plan right now beyond the initial 100 copies. :/
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
thanks to imago for leading me down the lansing-dreiden rabbithole
elbrecht lp repressed fyi https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/here-lies
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 22 April 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
haha sweet! hoped that namedrop would lead to someone checking them out. i just listened again to The Incomplete Triangle - what an album it is, just keeps getting better and better (both in terms of its tracklist and its enduring qualities)
― imago, Monday, 22 April 2019 07:47 (four years ago) link
Is this group more niche than I thought? I just got a copy of The Dividing Island vinyl reissue from six years ago #384/500. I can't fathom a pressing that limited not selling out before 2019.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
yeah they are quite obscure. criminally unknown
― boobie, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
i saw jorge elbrecht as support for kurt vile in june in berlin. and it was terrible. new wavish bombast, the voice totally distorted and hardly understandable, just crap. actually it took me about an hour to find out that it was him. and i love the "incomplete triangle" but live it does not seemm to work at all.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Uj68LXGj9lu4RCAX741ChDown in flames sounds like a sectioned bean b side
― calstars, Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I just picked up The Dividing Island on CD. I'm a fan of the Incomplete Triangle so I'm pleased to get this.
I'd never searched this band on ILM before. I must check the Jorge Elbrecht stuff mentioned above.
― Duke, Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/1siKvQOduE0LjKWuhEca7O?si=JzHubTJDSFywRYHZJmdo5Q
― calstars, Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlHAVzR41BkBest use of “pizazz” In a pop song?
― calstars, Sunday, 30 May 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
i had forgotten how good this is. been listening on repeat. some of the solo stuff is pretty great too; the way it veers from byrds to severed heads and has this rotating cast of ilm vetted assists - drab majesty, tamaryn, sky ferreira - sorta becoming obsessed tbh. would buy some LD physical ephemera but that seems impossible now
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
elbrecht is incredibly talented. love the new presentable corpse record
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah. The “run and hide” / “fading memory” one two punch is gutting me rn.
And “words never fail to fail” from the debut is the best julee cruise/blue Nile crossover I didn’t know I absolutely needed
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link