Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

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