Out on January 19th via Jagjaguwar Records
The former members of the group Women reunite after the disparaging death of old member and friend Christopher Reimer. Viet Cong have built a fan base on wily post-punk attitude mixed with the blessed talent of storytelling. Managing to combine a noise-punk ethos with craftsmanship is no mean feat. Pounding and poetic in equal measure this is a future cult classic and needs to be treated as such.
Later this month, Calgary band Viet Cong (featuring ex-members of Women) will release their self-titled debut LP, a follow up to last year’s “Cassette” EP. Previously, we heard the first single, “Continental Shelf”, and today they’re sharing a new song, “Silhouettes”. Viet Cong the album is out January 20 on Jagjaguwar.Records.
Since January 2010, Spencer Krug has used Moonface as a venue for home-recorded instrumental and conceptual experimentation, expanding the ideas he developed collaboratively with Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. Releases under this moniker have come quickly, each distinct from the other. The “Dreamland” EP and “Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped” were conceptual excursions merging instrumental and thematic fixations. After moving from Montreal to Helsinki, Krug teamed up with the Finnish band Siinai to create a lush rock record–2012’s “Heartbreaking Bravery”–driven by the dark despair of a breakup. Staying in Helsinki, Krug set off on yet another creative departure, driven by a rediscovery of love and a reconsideration of the Moonface persona he’d created for himself. The quietly stunning “Julia with Blue Jeans On” is the fourth Moonface release, bringing a degree of intimacy and self-reflection unlike anything Krug has produced to date.
Viet Cong – Cassette: A Calgary quartet made up of former Women band mates Matt Flegel and Mike Wallace, as well as guitarists Monty Munro and Danny Christiansen, Viet Cong exude shadows of their former incarnation – a certain spooky, claustrophobic, gloominess – but the band has also expanded into new sonic territories. Cassette kicks off in full-force, with the confident and wiry “Throw It Away.” (Echoes of Television’s self-assured debut). Waves of lo-fi psychedelic pop permeate throughout this record, but “Structureless Design” locks into in industrial groove and a propulsive drum-led séance. Shapeless, yes, but this band is not without direction or focus. Look out for their Jagjaguwar debut next year.
Burn Your Fire For No Witness is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Angel Olsen. It was released in February 2014 under Jagjaguwar Records. The album is being re-issued for a deluxe re-issue with extra tracks. The album “Burn Your Fire For No Witness” garnered broadly positive critical acclaim from reviewers called it “spellbinding and beautifully composed,” while further describing it as “an album spilling over with heart-swelling and painfully visceral romance.”
From the new album “Are We There” released on Jagjaguwar Records is a huge song and a really good video,
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