Diamond Jubilee

by Cindy Lee

Diamond Jubilee cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 March 2024
  • Label: Superior Viaduct, Not On Label
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 2:00:45
  • Community rating: 4.29/5 from 24 ratings

Artists on this release: Steven Lind, Patrick Flegel

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On 'Diamond Jubilee', Patrick Flegel鈥檚 Cindy Lee persona channels strains of 1950s girl groups, 1960s psychedelic pop, and 1970s radio rock through a spectral, lo-fi production lens. The sprawling two-hour album presents a collection of concise guitar-pop songs marked by Flegel's androgynous falsetto, exploring themes of love and loss with a dreamlike and hazy quality. Its production employs tape hiss and reverb to create a sound that feels like a lost transmission from an alternate reality, balancing experimental textures with a timeless and melodic songwriting core.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, dreamy, lo-fi, textured, shimmering

Tracklist

  1. Diamond Jubilee (5:22)
  2. Glitz (4:10)
  3. Baby Blue (3:55)
  4. Dreams Of You (2:46)
  5. All I Want Is You (3:01)
  6. Dallas (3:15)
  7. Olive Drab (1:31)
  8. Always Dreaming (3:43)
  9. Wild One (2:05)
  10. Flesh And Blood (5:14)
  11. Le Machiniste Fantome (1:03)
  12. Kingdom Come (4:42)
  13. Demon Bitch (4:24)
  14. I Have My Doubts (3:32)
  15. Til Polaritys End (4:05)
  16. Realistik Heaven (3:42)
  17. Stone Faces (4:22)
  18. Gayblevision (2:57)
  19. Dracula (6:08)
  20. Lockstepp (4:40)
  21. Government Cheque (3:34)
  22. Deepest Blue (2:57)
  23. To Heal This Wounded Heart (3:34)
  24. Golden Microphone (2:49)
  25. If You Hear Me Crying (4:01)
  26. Darling Of The Diskoteque (3:04)
  27. Dont Tell Me Im Wrong (4:48)
  28. Whats It Going To Take (3:29)
  29. Wild Rose (3:50)
  30. Durham City Limit (5:24)
  31. Crime Of Passion (3:13)
  32. 24/7 Heaven (5:25)

Credits

  • Patrick Flegel - performance, engineering, production, written-by, cover image, artwork
  • Steven Lind - guitar, bass, drums, synthesizer and strings, claps, engineering, production, mixing
  • Joshua Stevenson - mastering
  • Kassian - lacquer cut by
  • Mounir Al Shami - photography by
  • Phil Osborne - photography by
  • JG - photography by, set designer
  • Andrew Flegel - photography by

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