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

Those are bonus tracks on the Spotify version I think!

This album is quite something except for a lull 2/3 of the way through

yeah, i would totally buy this cd. if there is a cd to buy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFZJuzcc23Q

some of the vocals can do that meandering thing that is less than memorable. but that's not a deal-breaker for me.

vinyl is already sold out. oh well.

https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/here-lies

i like the section 25 female vox on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ulu2Iw28Es

can't believe i started this thread 14 years ago.

First two tracks, Guillotine and Rainbow Skies are my favourite so far

L-D always struck me as a really good way to plunder the 80s - by making it uncanny and intense. There's so much dull 80s plundering at the moment so it's nice Jorge has come back

none of the other 80s-apers had that kind of production that L-D had. it made their sound more mythical somehow. it was kinda fucked up sounding. half digital and half echo chamber.

yeah exactly. so uncanny. this album adds to it by subtly changing the songs as they progress. really interesting

'mythical' is a really good way to put it

omg That Will Slowly Unwind is amazing, why isn't it on the album proper

Oh I've worked out why I don't like Words Never Fail To Fail! It's a dead-on Blue Nile impression! I just listened to it while walking through London in the rain and my heart stirred not a whit. You'll all love it though. As a bonus, the next track is a fairly decent impression of Love Song by The Cure. Album's amazing apart from that

I guess WNFTF has some nice XTC harmonies in amongst the sheer Paul Buchanan-ness of it all, at least

i sent him a FB friend request. i want to ask him about the possibility of a CD release. with a bonus disc. i'm not a big online listener. i wonder how many records he pressed? probably not a lot.

i wonder if i would dig the Violens stuff more now. i'll bet i would. i just listened to this one and it reminded me of cass mccombs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90FeqsxnR0

I quite like WNFTF now ffs

finally listening now.

I've been feeling like there's something in vocal melodies and harmonies that I think Django Django do similarly, sort of Zombies-esque

He’s great with collaborators, less so when he tackles everything himself

Yes! I thought Zombies at one point too!

I think during Flesh To Ash

I can't get over the segue between the first two tracks on this

the Zombies one is Undiscerning Masses btw

my favorite l-d bit is still how the first track on the dividing island turns into a who song halfway through for no reason

Guitar heroics on “eternal lie” ftw

Sent Elbrecht a note telling him how much I like the new album and asking about a repress. He replied that there’s no plan right now beyond the initial 100 copies. :/

thanks to imago for leading me down the lansing-dreiden rabbithole

elbrecht lp repressed fyi https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/here-lies

haha sweet! hoped that namedrop would lead to someone checking them out. i just listened again to The Incomplete Triangle - what an album it is, just keeps getting better and better (both in terms of its tracklist and its enduring qualities)

Is this group more niche than I thought? I just got a copy of The Dividing Island vinyl reissue from six years ago #384/500. I can't fathom a pressing that limited not selling out before 2019.

yeah they are quite obscure. criminally unknown

i saw jorge elbrecht as support for kurt vile in june in berlin. and it was terrible. new wavish bombast, the voice totally distorted and hardly understandable, just crap. actually it took me about an hour to find out that it was him. and i love the "incomplete triangle" but live it does not seemm to work at all.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Uj68LXGj9lu4RCAX741Ch
Down in flames sounds like a sectioned bean b side

I just picked up The Dividing Island on CD. I'm a fan of the Incomplete Triangle so I'm pleased to get this.

I'd never searched this band on ILM before. I must check the Jorge Elbrecht stuff mentioned above.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1siKvQOduE0LjKWuhEca7O?si=JzHubTJDSFywRYHZJmdo5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlHAVzR41Bk

Best use of “pizazz” In a pop song?

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

elbrecht is incredibly talented. love the new presentable corpse record

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