“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
― are we sure that's a square root sign and not half a swastika (mizzell), Friday, 1 March 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
weird how they were originally on Kemado, but have been shifted to the related Mexican Summer
― are we sure that's a square root sign and not half a swastika (mizzell), Friday, 1 March 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
i am so getting the vinyl. reasonable pricing too!
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le beurre (imago), Friday, 1 March 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
but yeah we don't play it very loud for them. it gets loud!
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ahhhhh... love(d) those L-D records. I was always under the impression that everybody hated them.
Any of them still making music?
― mr.raffles, Friday, 1 March 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Friday, 1 March 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://violens.net/
― dan selzer, Friday, 1 March 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
there are actually TWO good threads for LD. we make fun of Ott on both of them:
Article Response: Lansing-Dreiden - 'The Incomplete Triangle'
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― massaman gai, Friday, 1 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
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
― are we sure that's a square root sign and not half a swastika (mizzell), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
though they should have quoted people here for the mexican summer page instead of ariel fink and grizzly bore and kurt measley.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 1 March 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Pajama party at scott's house.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 1 March 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
(and i waited and kinda forgot for awhile. just ordered them last week.)
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
actually i ordered them on sunday as a mothers day present to myself.
"Eternal Lie" sounds like an Ariel Pink outtake
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 14 June 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
The last couple of tracks on this...dying for proper drums
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 22 June 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 28 July 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
My humble L-D playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/nick.douglas/playlist/3RSmCvMXFELfTD1RjUNvwp
― calstars, Monday, 30 December 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
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.
― imago, Monday, 24 March 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
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...
― imago, Monday, 24 March 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
fwiw Disenchanted was somehow bettered by Desert Lights, which is a creation wrought from purest magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybPw-gG1M1s
― imago, Monday, 24 March 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
holy shit I had L-D in my head as I opened SNA just now
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Jorge has teased some new L-D in the future on his twitter
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah Disenchanted is much, much better than this. why, L-D, why? it doesn't even matter
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Disenchanted is fast becoming one of my favourite songs of the last 10 years, it's a miracle imo
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
it's like 80s pop, but 'taken to new levels', lol
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:37 (nine years ago) link
best thing is, it actually came out 11 years ago, whoops
Love this one :
https://soundcloud.com/stereogum/jorge-elbrecht-feat-ariel-pink
― calstars, Monday, 1 September 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Jorge Elbrecht produced and sounds it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxiRnZ6yvic#t=136
(I just learned his name, actually.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 23 May 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 May 2015 01:54 (nine years ago) link
New Tamaryn album sounds kind of like mellow L-D with female vocals.
― calstars, Saturday, 29 August 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
Coral Cross increasingly hitting an L-D spot (for me anyway):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-M-xzOXXMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-M-xzOXXMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-B2wHBP8MY
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-B2wHBP8MY
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
Oh damn. I am a failure at cut and paste as well as everything else.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvMPX4gik1U
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
it's a fine film.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 15 February 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
Agreed. Jorge is the man. From his Insta account, I think he just started work on the next No Joy album.
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 02:07 (eight years ago) link