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

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:

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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