Lansing-Dreiden-The Incomplete Triangle:Album Of The Year?

hmm, are you sure you aren't in the band?

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.

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

it's a scam!!

The A Sectioned Beam EP is also quite good, if you're looking for a taste before trying the album.

as for the lansing-dreiden-artband-spectacular, i listened to the "glass corridor" mp3 on their site, and it's rather nice.

Article Response: Lansing-Dreiden - 'The Incomplete Triangle'

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.

This is obviously a hidden message to Kemado Records: Don't spend too much money on The Sword! Our album is really cool too!

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.

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.

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.

But after two listens, none of the melodies or arrangements stick with me. I can't really remember anything about the album. This could very well be one of those slow growers, but I have a feeling that the overall hazy aura that surrounds these tracks might be detracting from the songs.

But still, tons of ambition. Which really counts for something these days. And not that Sufjan Stevens/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah parade rock ambition. This is the ambition you heard in Prefab Sprout and China Crisis records.

"The Dividing Island is Lansing-Dreiden's second full-length album, just recently released May 9th on Kemado Records. Live, L-D Section II are astonishing and refreshing, especially with their new line up bringing hints of shoegazed synth pop struts with new lead singers Sect and Ion. L-D Section I, a 9-pc band that performed Lansing-Dreiden's music in a live setting had sold-out shows in New York, Seattle, and Austin. This will also mark the debut of L-D Section II playing in selected cities."

well, duh, i finally actually read the voice live review that tim linked to. looks cool. and i like that review.

All they had to say for themselves was "Please don't be mean to us, we're just trying to have fun!" They're limp liberal-arts kids looking for fame, as childish and childlike as Len. But they've been to school and been around enough to know the easiest road to a reputation: courting overzealous tossbags with ambiguity and obfuscation. Lansing-Dreiden continue to build the biggest, whitest slate for pseuds to write spiraling academic architecture - the fait accompli that buttresses the band's naive thievery of thoughts and forms they don't even completely understand. They might as well have called their album P-KKt3.

that would be a good title too!

the pitchfork reviews are the only ones that read like that though.

"They're limp liberal-arts kids looking for fame"

aren't they already successful designers? and every one of their actions as musicmakers leads me to believe that fame is the last thing on their minds.

I don't know if this is a good record or not. It's not really my stylistic bag, but the clips on AMG sounded nice. Maybe it falls apart on closer inspection, but at the very least the songs are pretty lovely compositions (if emphemerally so).

I understand that this kind of music is Ott's turf and I can understand wanting to defend it, but I think there's something to be said for competent, interesting music, no matter how derivative, no matter how boring / pretentious the creators.

maybe that's just what they are though. i take their word for it. they put out a newspaper, they design stuff, they make cool music. i don't think they are frauds. looks like they are having fun AND actually doing stuff! frauds are usually kinda lazy.

it's definitely my turf! if i had turf. and i say thumbs up. i confess, i don't know what ott's turf is. but he is hung up on indie cred or something, and that's just silly. and, yeah, the extra-musical stuff really doesn't affect me. i'm aware of it, cuz i've read stuff, but it's not what i think about when i play the songs.

Similarly, you use the adjective "lifeless" to describe their songs, which I find convenient given some of the stylistic attributes of the music (i.e., New Wave as cold, robotic, etc.). Again, though, the description is meant as a criticism of the QUALITY of the music, and unless you are criticizing the New Wave/New Wave Revivalism aesthetic of coldness/roboticism/etc. in general (i.e., Nick Heyward's vocals sucked because they were too LIFELESS), I'm not sure why the criticism is particularly relevant to Lansing-Dreiden.

This is the entirety of your critique in that review apart from an accusation of "grotesque orchestrations," of which you do not cite an example.

Hey All,

We are doing a show as part of the "Starbucks Salon" series tomorrow at
7pm. The show is free. Here is the info:

L-D Section II - 7pm
Starbucks Salon
76 Greene St.
FREE

Hope you can come!

L-D

what to do

Just a quick reminder about our show at Hiro Ballroom tonight...

Also wanted to mention that we'll have copies of our new CD 'D.I. by
D.D.' available at the show.

Hope you all can make it!

And I only know the Beta Band's 3 eps release, but I can't say I see the similarities.

honestly, after listening to both albums tonight, they sound even stranger and more out of time than when they came out. I mean, they always existed in their own geodesic dome of a universe, but now that the bad taste of bad 80's pastiche has almost completely left my mouth, I hear both records in , um, the context of no context. i mean, they are just CDs that have been sitting around forever and that I haven't listened to in ages. and they are even further removed from something that they really had nothing to do with at the time. that 80's thing that was mostly dud in my book. the last 80's thing. not the one before that. having said that, i'm looking forward to the solo album by the guitarist from the faint. digi-metal. and signed to relapse! where is colin the mole, anyhow?

i take it back. i just listen to dude's myspace. the faint dude's myspace. it's horrible.

the faint is the worst band

and is relapse just reissuing an old album of his? oh whatever.

i saw the faint in philly way back when and the only time they roused me from my stupor was when they played enola gay. they did a nice version.

the faint had one ok song (not the one about strippers) but that one album of theirs i have is wretched

I was just thinking about Lansing-Dreiden. I still love them.

they got the synths right. but they had no songs. i was more of a reggie & the full effect fan. as far as emo-identified 80's goofs go. and i even liked reggie's metal songs! dwarf invasion!

i am wearing a Lansing-Dreiden shirt

sweet

ok the new free ep available for free on the site is THE SHIT

;)

LISTENING NOW

thanks for the heads up!

of course i can't help but want the song "tri" to keep going for another five minutes.

Thanks for the head zup.

Ultimately, The Incomplete Triangle is exactly what Lansing-Dreiden claim it is: Art. But I have to tell you, I don't spend a lot of time listening to Art. I listen to Music

(Dying here)

Grabbing new EP now!

psyched for this, thanks

"I Disappear" is amazing, kind of Studio-ish.

but not really. What does it sound like? 80s RnB?

Cool, that was pretty good. Looks from the website like their little art collective has been quiet for the last couple years.

hmm....weird...i think i like this...i all i've heard is this EP...i sort of don't know what to think because to me it sounds not like a three song EP by one band, but a three song mix of three different bands!

That's what their albums sound like too, but adjusted for scale (well, especially Incomplete Triangle).

I Disappear sounds kinda like these tracks (some might even say balearic, shh):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3rg0y_state-of-gracetouching-the-times_street

Yeah M@tt if you like that their albums are for you.

so do any of the L-D fans here also like Violens? It's two, or maybe more, of those guys, non-anonymous style. More 80s British influences dominate but I have been listening to their EP a lot.

I didn't know about them, but I'm checking out their myspace now. Doesn't interest me as much as Lansing-Dreiden, but then some of their stuff has had to grow on me. I like it a bit, and I hear a little more than just an 80s approach in the melodies and harmonies, so that's a plus, but it's not as hard to place as L-D often is, I think.

on the whole they are not as intriguing as L-D but they have well constructed songs. This might be my favorite (it's not on the ep)

violens bores the shat out of me

"disappear from here" is brilliance. need more new stuff from them.

I like this EP but I need more. And I think Lansing-Dreiden's albums benefit from the cumulative effect of all tracks (although that doesn't fit in too well with my lack of enthusiasm for the last few tracks on Incomplete Triangle--but even those have grown on me a bit).

listening to "laid in stone" now. love this album

dividing island sounded great last time i listened to it (about a month ago).

Hello friends of Lansing-Dreiden,

Please come hang out with us this Saturday, Sunday and Monday for our second open studio. We'll have new drawings and paintings as well as limited edition necklaces. Please write back with any questions...

Hope to see u here!

Jorge & Keith

LANSING-DREIDEN OPEN STUDIO

Saturday, October 24th, 2-9PM
Sunday, October 25th, 1-5PM
Monday, October 26th by appt.
107 Suffolk, between Rivington and Delancey, # 517
(enter through double-door on left and go upstairs to 5th floor, no buzzer.

AVAILABLE AT THE STUDIO:

- Small and medium-sized, unframed works,
including a small new series involving color
- Limited edition necklaces
- Framed collages, drawings and paintings
- Out-of-print Lansing-Dreiden CDs and Vinyl
- L-D Section T-Shirts, posters and guitar picks
- Woodblock Prints
- Death Notice II - IV (free)

sweet. didn't they only release one single on vinyl?

if louis doesn't like this band my whole worldview will fall apart

TELL ME MORE

the only one i've heard is Tri, which sounds like, man i dunno a way more fucked up muse with a fast metal drummer on one song, and kinda spark shit on another then like scritti polliti soft rock era shit on another. every song sounds like different band kinda

that sounds fairly promising in a not-quite-mindblowing-but-totally-agreeable way

when I am done inducting myself into the land of cLOUDDEAD I shall seek them out

Are L-D comparable to These New Puritans?

ok listening to the SECOND album (because the first isn't on Spotify) and jeez this is odd

and good! like, i can't place it, which is generally always a good thing

it SEEMS quite 80's, but couldn't possibly BE 80's, if that makes sense

yeah that basically sums it up. it's the 80s through one dude's very weird filter

altho my fav part is in the first song where they just turn into the who for a couple minutes

the middle-order one-two punch of 'part of the promise' and 'our next breath' is *magnificent*

actually the second half of this record is shaping up to be exceptional

there is some stuff from the first album on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF8QLVadUJs

both albums are great and worth owning. and, yeah, their sound can be disorienting. like, you know you've heard it, but not quite...

it's one of the weirdest things i've ever heard - it's not conventionally weird or wacky - it isn't fulsome in its otherness. i just find it unfathomable how these sounds came together like this. in a good way.

HAHAHAHA look at the Seward post I just found!

as time passes - and that whole post-post-post-80's thing fades from memory - they just sound weirder and weirder to me. in a good way.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:25 (9 months ago) Bookmark

SNAP

Glass Corridor is excellent! Although less mysterious than the stuff on the second album.

new violens single. album comes out in october? something like that. new single is kind of a mix of Go West, Kon Kan, and Springhouse. just kidding.

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Violens/track/Acid_Reign

Sounds good, but I like this one even better:

http://itp.nyu.edu/~amc630/SGIN/

Hoping for more SGINs.

I saw the SGIN, and it opened up my MNID.

guy from violens is in ITP?

LANSING-DREIDEN

The Incomplete Triangle (Expanded Edition) LP
A Sectioned Beam (Expanded Edition) EP
The Dividing Island LP

(US 4/9 and UK 4/22)

Lansing-Dreiden return with three reissues for the first time ever on vinyl and with new unreleased material.

Mexican Summer is excited to reissue the first three records from NYC-based company Lansing-Dreiden on April 9th (UK April 22nd ). Originally self-released, and later digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records: The Incomplete Triangle LP, A Sectioned Beam EP, The Dividing Island LP - have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time and include unreleased material, including a sprawling 15-minute track, “Seaside”, which has been added to the EP.

wonder why indie fans go batshit over stuff like tame impala and the national rather than this. sad, really.

“The Incomplete Triangle” was played in our house every day for over a year. It somehow made the war in Iraq more understandable.” – Kurt Heasley / Lilys

weird how they were originally on Kemado, but have been shifted to the related Mexican Summer

my kids go to bed listening to the 2nd album every night. not my doing either! its weird to hear that album playing from upstairs every night. still sounds great too.

i am so getting the vinyl. reasonable pricing too!

it's amazing xpost. also - the (superior imo) second half of the record lulls bedward...then that final track, nobody's sleeping through that, not even r. seward, infant superhero

i've heard this soooooooo many times and it never gets old. i could play it a thousand times more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE37efvtYmQ

but yeah we don't play it very loud for them. it gets loud!

Ahhhhh... love(d) those L-D records.
I was always under the impression that everybody hated them.

Any of them still making music?

man sometimes old threads pop up on ilx and it's a total mindfuck. i didn't know anyone had ever heard, cared about, liked, discussed, etc., this band. but then i was kinda living in the hinterlands when they were releasing music.

i have both albums and the ep and i like them a lot, though i think i like the idea/concept/aesthetic of L-D even more.

well, this will spur me to go back and relisten for the first time in forever.

Any of them still making music?

http://violens.net/

there are actually TWO good threads for LD. we make fun of Ott on both of them:

Article Response: Lansing-Dreiden - 'The Incomplete Triangle'

love this band, but we bought the originals why they gotta be extra tracks reissue cunts?
$?
can't really see anyone making megabucks here.
the re-release is such a wishy washy revisionist nostalgic wallow logic (esp on vinyl) - it's like a wish-fulfilment "history" or something.
like a machu pichu package tour sold as an adventure.
an apple mac sold as you-being-a-creative-type.
how did they drop the ball with violens, anyhow?
that shit sounds awful.

i personally agree about bonus tracks, but it seems most people like that kind of thing.
if i buy any of these it would probably just be Dividing Island, which i think i slightly prefer, and it has no bonus tracks

i will get them cuz they are truly one of the few groups of the 21st century - non-metal - that i adored. and they will probably look really nice. i was fine having the CDs. though i heard the 2nd album skipping in cyrus's boombox the other night cuz he has played it so much.

i don't really care about bonus tracks for the most part. though i am curious about the long track added to the EP.

though they should have quoted people here for the mexican summer page instead of ariel fink and grizzly bore and kurt measley.

i will get them cuz they are truly one of the few groups of the 21st century - non-metal - that i adored.

Man, you make it sound like the 21st century is over.

Love Lansing-Dreiden, but massaman gai otm.

I've said it before, but maybe not on this thread: "Our Next Breath" is an especially amazing song. I can't reveal my reasoning, since there isn't any really. Just gut level, ear level, this mix of retro elements has some sort of real ecstatic core. This is one of the songs I would pick to play for those put off by L-D's packaging.

Pajama party at scott's house.

got my vinyl got my vinyl!!! woo hoo!! playing first album now. got all three things. giving maria the download codes. maria: "this might be the first time i've ever been excited to get download codes."

packaging is normal. nothing fancy. good transfer. nice vinyl. sounds nice. definitely will pull these out when i get the urge to hear L-D. CDs are fine though if you already own the CDs. fanboy that i am i totally would have paid ten bucks extra if all three records had come in a slim box or something. as it is these three set me back like 70 bucks. money i never ever spend online for new vinyl. limited to 500 each but i doubt anyone would have trouble getting copies from the label for a while. how big could they be?

(and i waited and kinda forgot for awhile. just ordered them last week.)

actually i ordered them on sunday as a mothers day present to myself.

"Eternal Lie" sounds like an Ariel Pink outtake

The last couple of tracks on this...dying for proper drums

New song from Regal Degal:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15769-unseen/

I think this has a Lansing-Dreiden quality to it. An 80s post-punk take on 60s fuzz rock for the 2010s.

My humble L-D playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/nick.douglas/playlist/3RSmCvMXFELfTD1RjUNvwp

Just discovered the song 'Disenchanted'. Wow - did 80s pop really sound like this? I rather suspect this is, in some ways, an improvement. It's like an actualisation of a particularly nostalgic dream. Incredible.

im more into this album then i was before i like how the last songs all sound like new order

― chaki_burger (chaki), Monday, May 24, 2004 6:17 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Right - I don't really like New Order (let's not have a tedious calling-out session, just accept it, move on) but these songs are amazing. I don't know what the extra ingredient is - probably something ethereal in the melodic construction - really massy, expansive, ornate...

fwiw Disenchanted was somehow bettered by Desert Lights, which is a creation wrought from purest magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybPw-gG1M1s

L-D dude Jorge Elbrecht's new band is called Coral Cross, and he describes their music as choral thrash. The single "The Coldest Steel Across Your Face Slides" def has some metal in it, still not as good as L-D.

holy shit I had L-D in my head as I opened SNA just now

The new one goes to an interesting place in the middle that I wish was the whole song. Metal seems an odd choice for him.

yeah, seriously, the last four tracks of The Incomplete Triangle achieve electropop perfection in a way I can't even begin to describe. they'd make one of the greatest EPs ever made

Jorge has teased some new L-D in the future on his twitter

they'd make one of the greatest EPs ever made

― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:42 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh shit they DID release it as an EP, except without 'Disenchanted' (p much their best song full stop) and with something called The First Response, which I'm listening to now. the tricksy bastards

yeah Disenchanted is much, much better than this. why, L-D, why? it doesn't even matter

Disenchanted is fast becoming one of my favourite songs of the last 10 years, it's a miracle imo

it's like 80s pop, but 'taken to new levels', lol

best thing is, it actually came out 11 years ago, whoops

Love this one :

https://soundcloud.com/stereogum/jorge-elbrecht-feat-ariel-pink

Jorge Elbrecht produced and sounds it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxiRnZ6yvic#t=136

(I just learned his name, actually.)

There's just enough of a bite from "Are Friends Electric?" in this to make me smile a lot when I hear it without ripping it off wholesale.

New Tamaryn album sounds kind of like mellow L-D with female vocals.

Coral Cross increasingly hitting an L-D spot (for me anyway):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-M-xzOXXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-M-xzOXXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-B2wHBP8MY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-B2wHBP8MY

Oh damn. I am a failure at cut and paste as well as everything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvMPX4gik1U

So the video is really just taken from the Garbage Pail Kids movie (I guess?). I had no idea. Not something I grew up with.

it's a fine film.

listening to the vinyl reissues. sound so cool. i love some of the fucked up production but there IS a part of me that wonders what it would have sounded like if they had had crazy money to make the incomplete triangle. the songs are so good. would have loved multiple freestyle mixes and edits of I.C.U.

Agreed. Jorge is the man. From his Insta account, I think he just started work on the next No Joy album.

why didn't anyone tell me about 'Seaside'!? it's easily their best song and it's criminal that it was only ever released as a bonus track on the Sectioned Beam reissue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUelGLbAT3s

Criminal but somehow fitting.

Have never heard this before but it sounds great so far.

Maybe a little too much like Lansing-Dreiden doing a Lansing-Dreiden imitation, though that description sounds like something appealing as well.

i never had the sectioned beam cd so when i got the vinyl i probably didn't know it was an added track. otherwise i would have told you.

I worry about how many drugs Jorge Elbrecht is doing (but maybe that's all wrong).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkp0S1sqAH0

That dude used to be a manager at the Oyster Bar

That Ott review of this record is still infuriating. I love this album.

Jorge Elbrecht has a new album. It's very LD!

cool!

bumping cuz everyone should listen to this

ooh thanks for the tip

His trio of songs with Ariel pink a couple years ago are my favorite things of his

OK let's do this

Segue between first two tracks was so smooth I didn't notice it

Is this...prog?

i like this one from last year...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJuHTfndtx0

this could almost be an L-D track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pNue_9c0ao

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

yeah, i would totally buy this cd. if there is a cd to buy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFZJuzcc23Q

some of the vocals can do that meandering thing that is less than memorable. but that's not a deal-breaker for me.

vinyl is already sold out. oh well.

https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/here-lies

i like the section 25 female vox on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ulu2Iw28Es

can't believe i started this thread 14 years ago.

First two tracks, Guillotine and Rainbow Skies are my favourite so far

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

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.

yeah exactly. so uncanny. this album adds to it by subtly changing the songs as they progress. really interesting

'mythical' is a really good way to put it

omg That Will Slowly Unwind is amazing, why isn't it on the album proper

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

I guess WNFTF has some nice XTC harmonies in amongst the sheer Paul Buchanan-ness of it all, at least

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.

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

I quite like WNFTF now ffs

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

He’s great with collaborators, less so when he tackles everything himself

Yes! I thought Zombies at one point too!

I think during Flesh To Ash

I can't get over the segue between the first two tracks on this

the Zombies one is Undiscerning Masses btw

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

Guitar heroics on “eternal lie” ftw

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. :/

thanks to imago for leading me down the lansing-dreiden rabbithole

elbrecht lp repressed fyi https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/here-lies

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)

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.

yeah they are quite obscure. criminally unknown

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.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Uj68LXGj9lu4RCAX741Ch
Down in flames sounds like a sectioned bean b side

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.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1siKvQOduE0LjKWuhEca7O?si=JzHubTJDSFywRYHZJmdo5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlHAVzR41Bk

Best use of “pizazz” In a pop song?

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

elbrecht is incredibly talented. love the new presentable corpse record

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