― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 May 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
"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."
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 May 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 25 May 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 25 May 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
well, duh, i finally actually read the voice live review that tim linked to. looks cool. and i like that review.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
that would be a good title too!
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey All,
We are doing a show as part of the "Starbucks Salon" series tomorrow at7pm. The show is free. Here is the info:
L-D Section II - 7pmStarbucks Salon76 Greene St.FREE
Hope you can come!
L-D
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
what to do
― ()()()---()()() (internet), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 8 September 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
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― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
elbrecht is incredibly talented. love the new presentable corpse record
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
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
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link