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

Will do my best to hear the Fever album.

kthxbye

PITCHFORK OTM SHOCKAH!!!!!!!

ummmm, what?

dick!

so many respectable people here speak highly of it.

Hey, I like it too.

I-F/Parallax Corp did an amazing instrumental New Order rip-off, Burning Ignorance on the Autistic Sync 12", I think.

And has anyone heard of The Bridge? Credited to someone named Paul Bell? Either one of those forgotten secret New Order productions or an incredible fascimile...

Actually, even if I listen again and can be convinced it's decent to good, it's still not the kind of thing I get terribly excited about, and wouldn't have much of an opinion had the EP not been sent to me. I think it's a DJ promo sampler from the LP kind of thing, but am not sure. One part I liked the music/production etc but one there was singing and a song I lost interest.

people going "haters" about the lansing-dreiden album amidst new order comparisons

i like the album, but i can relate to the hate.

Dan, it's way better than that! The guitar playing is consistently PERFECT, both tone-wise and in execution, in a surprising number of styles. The songwriting, both structurally and melodically, is unbelievable.

ok, I'm ready to make an informed opinion now...

the ep has 4 songs, Glass Corridor, I.C.U., Desert Lights and The First Response.

Glass Corridor I like before the singing starts, it has an almost technicolor era Disco Inferno feel with the drum programming and guitars, but the rest I didn't like so much. I.C.U. has an arthur baker era new order feel, but the songwriting on all the songs does nothing for me.

I usually make really fast judgements on whether I like bands based on hooks and their ability to get under my skin right away. Most bands, this one included, aren't catchy enough to get past my pop radar, while the production, while intricate and obviously thought out and well-executed, sounds mostly uninspired. This is, of course, my humble opinion. I'd rank this over any number of recent bands who's music isn't nearly as interesting or ambitious, but not enough to be something I'd ever really listen to.

oh god no. jesus wept.

i've given this record the old college try more than a few times, and i really can't come to any other conclusion. i think it's terrible, a mess - a bunch of disparate, rinky-dink parts patched together. being derivative is one thing... most people are. things don't just fall from the sky without prompting. at least do it with some style and enthusiasm, and decent production.

at least do it with some style

Ok so they are accused by Chris 'pitchfork' Ott of being pretentious art school wanks. Of being completly stylized w/o any substance. And now not having style. Hmmm. Can they be both?

And Dan, I don't think that the songs on that E.P. give any sense of the scope of the band (though the last one you mention isn't on the album and I haven't heard it).

-- cutty (holle...), June 11th, 2004.

no.

Yes. It's f***ing unprecedented and brilliant. That song is a good example of why I don't understand criticizing them for being derivative. The melody (and harmonies on the chorus) and the vocal harmonies are New Wave, but from where? Who does this rip off?

ddb: why are you still reading this thread?

Did they break up as someone claimed in a youtube comment (possibly just making unjustified assumptions)?

that's what I read, somewhere.

were both guys masterminds behind the music or was there one mastermind? i mean, they started out as a design company, right? or makers of fashion installations or something.

I don't know but one or some of them are now Violens, who are very similar at times. From what I heard, a bit more on the 60s rock tip and less on the 80s new wave tip.