― 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
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― 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
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― dan selzer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
And I only know the Beta Band's 3 eps release, but I can't say I see the similarities.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
honestly, after listening to both albums tonight, they sound even stranger and more out of time than when they came out. I mean, they always existed in their own geodesic dome of a universe, but now that the bad taste of bad 80's pastiche has almost completely left my mouth, I hear both records in , um, the context of no context. i mean, they are just CDs that have been sitting around forever and that I haven't listened to in ages. and they are even further removed from something that they really had nothing to do with at the time. that 80's thing that was mostly dud in my book. the last 80's thing. not the one before that. having said that, i'm looking forward to the solo album by the guitarist from the faint. digi-metal. and signed to relapse! where is colin the mole, anyhow?
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i take it back. i just listen to dude's myspace. the faint dude's myspace. it's horrible.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the faint is the worst band
― chaki, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
and is relapse just reissuing an old album of his? oh whatever.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw the faint in philly way back when and the only time they roused me from my stupor was when they played enola gay. they did a nice version.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the faint had one ok song (not the one about strippers) but that one album of theirs i have is wretched
― electricsound, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just thinking about Lansing-Dreiden. I still love them.
― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
they got the synths right. but they had no songs. i was more of a reggie & the full effect fan. as far as emo-identified 80's goofs go. and i even liked reggie's metal songs! dwarf invasion!
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i am wearing a Lansing-Dreiden shirt
― chaki, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link