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A SECTIONED BEAM
(Kemado)
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They may not reveal their names or want their pictures taken — they don’t even like to be referred to as a "band," really — but the members of Brooklyn-based art collective Lansing-Dreiden know all the right buttons to press when it comes to making artful retro-pop recordings. The first three jams on this four-track EP sparkle with the kind of dreamy lysergic jangle that would blow what’s left of Brian Wilson’s fragile psyche back to 1968 on a cloud of pixie dust. It’s not all strawberry fields forever, though: the final hidden and untitled track harnesses the ’80s synth-pop glory of Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode — minus the high-strung pretension and sideways haircuts — so confidently that Lansing-Dreiden might as well have invented it. The overall effect is that of drug rock for precision pill poppers that requires neither precision nor pills.
