CD Review

Wikipedia defines them as a “company,” not a band. Pitchfork hates them because they’re one of the few things in creation more pompous than they are. This is Lansing-Dreiden, a Miami by way of New York collective, who may very well be using Churchill’s famous quote on Russia – “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – as their mission statement. Say what you will, the music is singular, refreshing. “A Line You Can Cross” is Wang Chung jousting with Bauhaus for the right to commandeer Peter Murphy’s Batman-descent ankle restraints. The whole thing feels like The Alan Parsons Project drunk on screwdrivers in a gazebo on the first day of spring. If they played this album in Chicago goth club, Neo, they might attract a crowd besides the usual goombas doing shamanistic hoedowns to Siouxsie. Take a good listen, Secret Machines. This is the way to make the stoners smile.

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