Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

Also disc 1 is better

fuck these guys for stealing the house music cindy lee's name

Pretty amazing live set - somehow gels the album experience for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0QKjcNaNbI

lots of quality guitar shredding in that video

I'm staying pleasantly lost inside this record, and it wouldn't be as appealing as a tight and punchy set of the peaks. It reminds me of Chromatics Kill for Love, a very assured aesthetic that could be tossed off or labored over but makes you feel like you are in the passenger seat for a long drive into the night.

I've also been enjoying this, sadly their entire tour was cancelled the other day

I was thinking of Steve Albini the last time I streamed this.

Custom tracklists for this album, I just don't want to see them

It reminds me of Chromatics Kill for Love, a very assured aesthetic that could be tossed off or labored over but makes you feel like you are in the passenger seat for a long drive into the night.

― Bertold Brak (bendy), Wednesday, May 8, 2024 12:19 PM (three hours ago)

i like this

i'm partial to the first disc but that's just more my personal taste. glitz, baby blue, all i want is you, dallas, always dreaming, wild one, flesh and blood, demon bitch ... i'm naming like the entire tracklist. i do like how the sharper songwriting kinda flickers intermittently throughout the second disc but the first disc really wallops me

I guess there is no established formula for a 2-hour album made up of actual songs but it does make sense for it to stretch out somewhat in the second half

('actual songs' as opposed to dub versions, jams with Clapton, kids singing Career Opportunities etc.)

I was hoping to see Cindy during the tour but the show near me came and went and I'd forgotten haha. The new album was very good though! Reminds me of the Aislers Set a tad...

okay, this has been one of my most anticipated things recently and we're settling in for a first listen now.

first few tracks sound absolute fire but i just have to ask why the fierce independence on the distribution? not even free on bandcamp, huh? don't get me wrong, i like the ethos a lot ("digital digging") but all told it took me 90 minutes to get it together. three different unzipping apps and tediously numerous file renamings later, hey now here we are.

is it weird of me to consider that rotary connection might be a touchstone for some of the sounds here?

retrofuture melodic squelch rock ftw. disc 2 is great! gonna need more time, but yep i like it a lot.

i think this sounds like the jukebox at malcolm mclaren's sex, but in alternate timeline. definitely has that john waters/david lynch vibe and i love how lofi it is. really good, a lot to calibrate. very firm 4 mics.

queer Chris Isaak vibes

hi the more i listen to this, the better it gets. i'm kind of in alignment with the pfork review in the sense that it feels like a highlight reel and i can't pick a favorite. kinda cliche, but yeah: if there's a lead single, it's "flesh and blood." holy smokes this is fantastic. i'm enthusiastically sticking with andy's 4 mics. gonna be a _great_ summer album.

but mostly i wanted to post not to ask about the "roots+influences" of this stuff ―it's like stereolab and could probably merit its own thread just on sonics alone― but to see what you guys thought about in terms of similarities to contemporary music? you know... that queer chris isaak/dark purple sunrise after being up all night thing.

reason i ask is because even before i heard this album, a lot of the things i was having show up in my algorithms are definitely occupying the same space. a couple that really stuck out to me, especially after hearing diamond jubilee―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzGaER-aR7I
mega bog ― "wet moss" (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1i9G1R8t4
sepiatone ― "new world" (2001)

and then there's the entirety of the band soft location, who i can't recommend enough. also a ton of self-released west coast stuff that i don't wanna get into, but only for not wanting to divert away from this wonderful album. go listen to it!

so in a perfect world, "flesh and blood" dominates everything through late june, just for "all i want is you" to carry us into the second half of summer, triumphantly and appropriately.

More on the roots and influences tip, but I see some parallels to Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs" in terms of the sprawling ambition, lyrical themes, and ramshackle vibe.

Listening this week stirred up memories of The Lavender Flu's Heavy Air which I liked quite a bit when I came out, but then forgot about.

it’s not really pulling from the same exact places sonically but especially the first few times streaming diamond jubilee on youtube it took me back to my first times hearing ‘oh you’re so silent jens’ … something similar about, in o. nate’s words, “the sprawling ambition and ramshackle vibe.” jens is more verbose and humorous as a lyricist, but there’s a combination of doomed romantic moroseness in the lyrics and crackly lo fi warmth in the production on diamond jubilee (disc 1 in particular) that reminds me of early jens

it's very deerhuntery imo

yeah when my boyfriend listened to it for the first time he said it made him think immediately of atlas sound

I do like the way it reminds me of old doo wop and old rock n'roll in terms of vibe than sound (although occasionally sounding like that too). The length of it all does induce a bit of zone out but its good enough to keep you coming back to it. Im on my 3rd listen of it now.

"lou reed jams with michael rother"

I also feel there are some slight parallels to fellow Calgarian Ryan Bourne's album of lo-fi bedroom psych from last year, Plant City, co-produced by Calgary uber-scenester Chad Van Gaalen, whose label also has put out Cindy Lee's former band Women.

this just sounds like something on slumberland to me

"dracula" (the old man is back again!) is a jam