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

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