Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

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