Lansing-Dreiden CD Review
Lansing-Dreiden
The Dividing Island
(Kemado)
It’s too bad the phrase “chamber pop” applies to a different sort of music, because it would suit Lansing-Dreiden perhaps more literally.
If My Morning Jacket sound like they record underground with their cavernous echo, Lansing-Dreiden’s affiliation with the sonic anomaly is more church-like, or echo chambered. Just as 2003’s The Incomplete Triangle arrested broken post punk and British new wave in its tractor beam, *The Dividing Island* sounds like OMD or Talk Talk on a Brian Eno kick. The difference is an authentic fondness for mod rock, particularly The Who and Creation. “A Line You Can Cross” might not be new territory (or even a regression), but the title track and “Our Next Breath” whip around with “My Generation” abandon while cooly hinting this is the same band. The weirdest, though perhaps most exacting balance of this is “Part Of The Promise,” a schizophrenic blend of thuggish guitars and fey electro. Maybe it’s time to come out of the chamber.
— Kevin Keegan
Click here for the video to “A Line You Can Cross.”
