Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (2024) – LITTLE LOST CLASSICS

I met Cindy Lee at the beginning of 2020 – just before the damn pandemic – with What’s tonight to eternityhis second album. That experimental thing with some pop glimpses made my head, which soon got lost among anxiety, alcohol, fear, loss, pain and all the shit that was the two pandemic years. I forgot about it, like so many other things.

Cut to 2024, when during research for the recording of a radio version of PCP I rescued the last track from the aforementioned album, called “Heavy metal”; I looked for Cindy and discovered that:

A) She had just released a new triple album (!!!), something that I thought was absolutely unthinkable by current music standards. Obviously I would listen.

B) I already knew Cindy, but under the name Patrick Flegel. Sit back and there’s more to come…

A long time ago, while reading about post-punks Viet Congafter PreoccupationsI learned that half of the band came from another group called Women. Like a good addict I went in search of knowledge, I went crazy with their two albums (Women2008; and Public strainfrom 2010) and I found that after the death of drummer Chris Reimer in 2012, the quartet formed by him, Mike Wallace and brothers Matt and Patrick Flegel disbanded.

Returning to the second paragraph and the research on Lee, the discovery and why I already know her: this has been the name adopted by its former vocalist Patrick since the end of Women, then recording and performing as the drag Cindy.

And regarding item 'A' of this short text, the triple disc or double CD is called Diamond Jubileeofficially came out in March this year only on YouTube and on a website created to download it (in addition to being a great composer and musician, Cindy is in herself a confrontational act, including against the music industry) and now in October in physical versions on the label Californian Superior Viaduct.

Musically, it is his least experimental but no less intricate work. The author spent years working on her 32 songs, and the result sounds as if part of the music from decades ago – from psychedelia to the sound of girl groups to the innocence of newborn rock from the 1950s – passed through a low-noise filter. fidelity, generating a sound that has no equal in current rock, equally emotional and stoned, turbulent and dreamy.

And in addition to this information, Diamond jubilee It is, at least so far, my favorite album in this 2024 that is heading quickly towards its end.

Thank you, Cindy Lee!