CD 1 0:01 Diamond Jubilee 5:23 Glitz 9:32 Baby Blue 13:28 Dreams Of You 16:14 All I Want Is You 19:14 Dallas 22:30 Olive Drab 24:01 Always Dreaming 27:44 Wild One 29:49 Flesh And Blood 35:03 Le Machiniste Fantome 36:05 Kingdom Come 40:47 Demon Bitch 45:11 I Have My Doubts 48:43 Til Polaritys End 52:49 Realistik Heaven CD 2 56:30 Stone Faces 1:00:54 GAYBLEVISION 1:03:50 Dracula 1:09:58 Lockstepp 1:14:38 Government Cheque 1:19:44 Deepest Blue 1:22:41 To Heal This Wounded Heart 1:26:15 Golden Microphone 1:29:04 If You Hear Me Crying 1:33:06 Darling Of The Diskoteque 1:36:11 Dont Tell Me Im Wrong 1:40:59 Whats It Going To Take 1:44:27 Wild Rose 1:48:18 Durham City Limit 1:53:41 Crime Of Passion 1:56:55 24/7 Heaven
Given the state of the world at the moment, this album is a reminder than humanity is capable of creating something beautiful and meaningful, in spite of all of our flaws.
This is my first listen to cindy lee and the vibes this album exude revived my fossilized body. Im from the Philippines 🇵🇭 and were having an intense heatwave. But this album let me enjoy my suffering while laying down under our nipa hut with all the sweat and longings for a better life. Thank you cindy lee for a memorable afternoon!
Hello SEA friend, Indonesian here... and yeah the heatwaves are no joke lmaoo...glad this album could help us enjoy life.... This album and Only God Was Above Us are my potential AOTY so far. cheers
Amazing that I can so quickly be directed to an obscure TH-cam link and hear a new landmark album I’ll be listening to for the rest of my life from an artist I had previously never heard before. This album is such a gift
According to the Cindy Lee Geocities page, "LARGE RUN OF LPs WILL BE PRESSED A WHILE AFTER THE TOUR." April-May 2024, "final American tour", catch it --
This is one of the best comment sections I've ever encountered on TH-cam, this album and the community around it make me really glad to be alive at this particular time. Thanks guys.
These recordings feel incredibly personal and heart-felt to me. I can feel all the emotions while listening to this. It's really a beautiful thing. If there's one last thing I'll say it's this, this album is an absolute masterpiece that will be cherished for many years to come.
This album and combined comment section single handedly picked me up out of this massive four month long hole of sadness. this music is great. people are great. i will be okay. time for roof beers and this album all summer
Damn straight, buddy. I'm sitting on a park bench in the sun listening to this. It's 9am, but I feel like some health issues I've had are finally lifting and, well, the sun has already come out. Here's to happier times ahead.
There are few albums that I consider life-changing for me, even fewer that have made me tear up. But god dammit, Pat flegel accomplished these twice. Both Public Strain and Diamond Jubilee are records that simply can't be described by language, but can only be felt by being experienced as a whole. But this one hits different, because it feels like the absolute culmination of Pat's maturation of their sensibilities and musicianship, and it shows (especially if you've been a Women/Cindy Lee fan for a while and have heard the hours of haunting experimentation, howling noise and sublime beauty that Pat has put out thorugh the years) and now it got to a point where their stuff sounds absolutely unreal. I know this album will stick with me for a long time, just like Public Strain, soothing me and haunting me for as long as I'm around.
Cindy Lee is a guy from Canada who was previously in a band called Woman. He dresses in drag. His other albums are on Spotify so hopefully this one will be added especially when it wins album of the year on every major music publication. The band Tool withheld their music on Spotify for the longest time and they admitted that it was a huge mistake. They feel a whole generation of music fans don’t know or aren’t aware of their music because they held out. Hopefully Cindy Lee will get wise to this Because this music is incredibly original. It reminds me a little bit of Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti but totally unique sound!
@@Braunld you could might as well demand a Spotify release. You wouldn't even have to change any sides. The whole idea about vinyl is its inconvenience lol and its still the most fun to collect and spin
the Realistik website is calling the upcoming tour Cindy Lee's last American tour so i think it's more of the case that their visa might have expired and they're not gonna renew it. Could be the end of Cindy Lee but i don't see it being the last of Pat. They've mentioned in an interview wanting to do more collaborations
Took me a while to listen to this one but I listened to this on a road trip back home with my newlywed wife from our honey moon and I have never felt such a sense of euphoria in my life, being present in that particular moment in life all while listening to this album was something of pure bliss, something so so beautiful and this album hits that mark of never ending beauty and unforgettable moments we share in this wonderful life.
same. i love it so much. and i just recently listened to the whole thing in one sitting (the ads are such vibe destroyers) but i cant get enough. i even think about it when it's not around. crushing hard on that cindy lee diamond jubilee ❤
@@nicholasmanolaros2290 i actually took a bit of a break. well over a whole week. you see, i've been listening to some other great bands lately... but i find myself thinking about sweet Cindy Lee Diamond Jubilee afterwards. they got quite the sonic hold on me. in fact, i am gonna listen to the whole fucking thing tonight again, volume way up with my finger hovering over the mute button ads be damned. i cant waaaait 😍
Dancing at the Bang Bang Bar in Twin Peaks. David Lynch would be proud! There is space in this world for all of us unique creatures to meet at a crossroads and revel in the emotions we all share and experience.
Yesterday one of the most interesting people I know said “you gotta listen to this” so I went home popped a gummy and listened to the entire album. Listened again today. It's gotten into my bones. Kingdom Come, Wild One, and Flesh and Blood are early favourites. The instrumental at the end of Don’t Tell Me I’m Wrong made me weep (1:40:00). La Machiniste Fantome wtf…it’s so gorgeous. I’m overwhelmed and intoxicated and I’ve only been with it for about 24 hours. Capital A Art here.
You know when you hear something truly brilliant, maybe the way a guitar emerges then blooms or a snare kicks in or a bass twirls, and you think 'i need to hear that again, right now' and you reach for your phone, and then you think 'no, i'm going to hear that moment hundreds if not thousands of times across the rest of my life' and so you just lean back and let it keep on coming. That. So many times. I have met a new partner. Thank-you Patrick.
One of the most gorgeous and transporting albums I've heard in a long time. I want to share it with everyone I know but they're like "why are you texting me a Geocities link lol"
Just saw Cindy Lee last night at a sold out, shoulder to shoulder, 300 person capacity Hi-Dive in Denver, Colorado on a Sunday night! What a transcendent night to hear songs from this incredible album performed live!
This is like the "Pet Sounds" for the 2020s, even the "worst" tracks are so well placed you don't want to skip a single second going through this wonderful journey....
same for me =) i just can't believe my ears.... 🥰 you have to have a certain taste in music to like it at all) and from the first time it's very cool. what kind of music do you like? stupid question) I wouldn't be able to answer that question clearly. I would say high music, good music. music is either good or not. i like GOOD music =)
this album makes me believe in humanity again, if humans can make something this wonderful I think we will be alright, and if not, at least I got to enjoy this
Greetings from Ukraine. Different music I listen and play, a little bit. Raised on hippies and rock'n'roll ... TH-cam suggested it to me.... Always recommends very interesting things. I'm honestly shocked, I didn't expect such beautiful true music to come across these days, 2024. I would really like to hear it live, to be at a concert. But alas ...
Hugs from Melbourne Australia. Not lost on me the haunting reality that we can both be listening to the same music in such incredibly different situations.
god the comment section here is so beautiful, sending all my love out there to all my fellow cindy lee heads, may you stand strong and keep slaying xxoo
@@moussanbani the WAVs are on the realistik geocities. I added them to my plex server and set a library to music and pointed it to the directory of the WAVs. You would probably be better off converting the WAVs to an MP3 and just syncing them to your phone’s music app or adding them to Spotify offline files on your computer and using your phone to download those files locally.
So this is what it's like to be floored and lifted at the same time. I try to avoid throwing the word "masterpiece" around. This is a masterpiece. It is a world unto itself, fully realized, heartbreaking and true. An album that reminds you music is the heaven we long for.
Had the same thoughts about Thee Oh Sees (as they were known around 2011ish) and Ariel Pink's middle output. Seek out the live cersion of 'Gilded Cunt' by thee oh sees. It really shares its atmosphere with this fine album😂
First time I write a comment, ever. This is out of nowhere. I am completely blown away! I want to know more about this amazing artist. Every sounds, every arrangements are speaking my language. The low-fi production is deliciously on purpose and strike hard. Wow.
Cindy Lee is Pat Flegel, formerly of the band WOMEN (the band of both Flegel brothers - for the other half of the duo, check out his band Viet Cong/Preoccupations).
I need this shit on CD, on vinyl, on a T-shirt, burned into my fuckin lips Sometimes a record takes some time to grow, but this one grabs you fast as a rusty oil tanker train careening through the north american plains. I'm shoutin and stompin and cryin and I am beggin for more Holy lord jesus instant classic!!!
Still jamming it every single time I've had more than a couple drinks. I forced my parents to listen to half of it when I was dropping them off @ SATX earlier this week. They loved it as well. It's absolutely timeless. Edit here: Also my cat Barbara Beaks fuckin loves it, Probably because she notices how it immediately makes me chill tf out,
Driving a vintage car down a dark, foggy road while a pirate radio station fades in and out….every tune from a time long gone yet also, somehow, right here. Right now. With you.
If this was pressed on vinyl it would never need to be changed off the table. All the things I love about the last 50 years of rock and roll distilled perfectly into one collection. Kind of feel like jet lagged Mike walking into Dan Flashes for the first time.
it'd have to be a 4 disc set, 32 songs = changing sides 8x in one listening session.. fun activity or course! but seamless listening is perfect for this work. mildly ironic, given they've barred it from all streaming platforms except bandcamp. i doubt they even want this on youtube. it's a tad pretentious in 2024 but also correct.
Seeing a mother rock her baby back and forth in the grocery store while I'm having a fairly high fever and listening to this joint for the first time was such a wonderful little scene ❤
I don't think I've been this enchanted by an album in ages; I've had it on as the main album in rotation in my day-to-day since it released, and not a single second of mine has felt lost/bored. absolutely incredible work on Patrick's part, such a beautiful world to explore life along side.
Im going through some dark times but this album unexpectedly met me at the onset… and held a light bright enough to keep me moving forward without ignoring the sadness i have yet to endure. Thanx for being here and helping me through this moment.
I saw cindy lee and heard her live for the first time at a show in denver co and it felt like watching a women sing by the piano is a smoky dark bar in the 1960s and this album gives me the same ethereal experience
0:01 Diamond Jubilee 5:23 Glitz 9:32 Baby Blue 13:28 Dreams Of You 16:14 All I Want Is You 19:14 Dallas 22:30 Olive Drab 24:01 Always Dreaming 27:44 Wild One 29:49 Flesh And Blood 35:03 Le Machiniste Fantome 36:05 Kingdom Come 40:47 Demon Bitch 45:11 I Have My Doubts 48:43 Til Polaritys End 52:49 Realistik Heaven 56:30 Stone Faces 1:00:54 GAYBLEVISION 1:03:50 Dracula 1:09:58 Lockstepp 1:14:38 Government Cheque 1:19:44 Deepest Blue 1:22:41 To Heal This Wounded Heart 1:26:15 Golden Microphone 1:29:04 If You Hear Me Crying 1:33:06 Darling Of The Diskoteque 1:36:11 Dont Tell Me Im Wrong 1:40:59 Whats It Going To Take 1:44:27 Wild Rose 1:48:18 Durham City Limit 1:53:41 Crime Of Passion 1:56:55 24/7 Heaven
This is the coolest thing I've heard in a while. I'm getting some Velvet Underground and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti vibes but this album is truly it's own.
The record is wonderful, a true masterpiece. I also get the feeling that the Cindy Lee era is over. Maybe it is just my impression, but I sense both from the song titles and the lyrics the theme of death or at any rate the acceptance that something is coming to an end, peacefully. One would have to understand in what sense, though. It is probably my very personal interpretation. If it is a farewell, it is the most beautiful farewell they could give us. Thank you so much Pat for all this amazing music.
I'm pretty sure Pat is just retiring the Lady Woland / Cindy Lee persona, and will continue as Realistik Studios. Possibly moving back to Canada too but I'm not sure on that one.
@@hivedrops8326I think, however, they were referring to the North American tour, not to the fact that Diamond Jubilee was their last record. I interpreted it that way. Otherwise what I hear from the record personally is a farewell.
A “diamond Jubilee” is the 60th year anniversary of a ruling monarch. So it makes sense to the theme of the album to call it that as it runs through about the past 60 years of North American music and its genres. Maybe that’s just coincidental but I like to believe it isn’t. I would say this starts about ‘64 with the genres Cindy is playing. This is absolutely wild. Multiple genres connected by a common theme.
2 years and i'm in my 6th decade. Haven't expected to be drawn in like this from a 2h double album again ever. Found a recommendation from a german over-regional newspaper which probably had a look at some music review sites but the review was very positive so I tuned in, wasn't disappointed at all and quite interested. (started with progressive rock in the 70s, punk in the 80s, post-punk in the 90s, avantgarde in between, post-metal somewhere in there too, add some stuff I totally missed like the talk talk progression back then, re-discovering ambient and more...)
I was not expecting this! Nothing but 60s pop guitar mode from Cindy Lee PLUS disco beats?!? This is all I'll be listening to for the foreseeable future.
I love when music isn’t overly produced.. it reminds me of my youth.. just raw. Isn’t it amazing that all the greats sound effortless. I cannot stand when it’s so perfect and pure sounding on a record.. i miss the era from the late 60s through early 90s where there was almost a washed out sound to the recordings. Not sure what gave it that sound but its so much more pleasant to hear than teh really over produced pure zero error sound..
I don't know so much about what went into the songs, but whenever I listen to this album I am haunted by the fact that these chords and melodies are so beautiful, yet the vocals and words point to the kind of quiet sadness that has quietly followed someone for a long time. It makes me really sad that they decided to hang up this project right after this came out, yet I am touched by the authenticity behind the decision. I cannot imagine the wounds behind this music, but I am grateful that this album exists, both for Pat and for those who find themselves reflected in the mystery that it paints. How strange it is to see so deep into someone, only for them to vanish and to have so many unanswered questions.
Un periodo difficile, un orizzonte basso e poi...la musica. Questa musica. Che meraviglia. Devo ricordarmelo sempre che la musica può avere questo potere.
Its such an honour to have gotten to see pieces of this album develop and be performed on three separate occasions (twice in Calgary and once in Oakland). I love listening to this album both live and recorded, it is truly a masterpiece. I
Long time fan of Women, Cindy Lee and Preoccupations here. I have absolutely loved every release from these artists but this is just gigantic. Likely to be my favorite release this year.
I was completely obsessed with that song "black Rice" so many years go. Its giving me some real nice brainsauce that it evolved into something so singular and amazing.
Magnificent! Been a Flegel-head since seeing Women at the Royal Canadian Legion in 2008. Keeping my fingers crossed for a physical release of this incredible double album
I would love to imagine that, somewhere there is a world that exists in which I will mean as much to anything as much as Pat's music catalogue has meant to me. Diamond jubilee is the magnum opus, a true landmark.
the whole guitar solo/ending section of Lockstepp with its phasing guitar lines and abrupt change to explosive repeated drum lines might be the best and most psychedelic things i've heard ever. god this album is so iconic and will stay in my life.
This album is just insane! I almost have to pinch myself to remind me its 2024 you get soooo lost in this sound. Unreal talent...and its 2hrs long, just shocking all around
Saw them perform last night. I can't truly explain how this made me feel, but it's an experience I'll never forget. One of the most talented artists I've ever seen in person. Thanks Cindy/Pat.
i was about to say it reminded me of magnetic fields, not that it sounds like magnetic fields. just the virtuosity and sheer output and ability to shock me out of my 2020s indie ennui
Wonderfull album, listening it for the second time and loving it.
Thank you TB
Sounds like nothing I've ever heard, and everything I've ever loved.
Very well put :)
Universal comfort.
man I love this comment
Beautifully said! Very true❤
this is exactly what it is
CD 1
0:01 Diamond Jubilee
5:23 Glitz
9:32 Baby Blue
13:28 Dreams Of You
16:14 All I Want Is You
19:14 Dallas
22:30 Olive Drab
24:01 Always Dreaming
27:44 Wild One
29:49 Flesh And Blood
35:03 Le Machiniste Fantome
36:05 Kingdom Come
40:47 Demon Bitch
45:11 I Have My Doubts
48:43 Til Polaritys End
52:49 Realistik Heaven
CD 2
56:30 Stone Faces
1:00:54 GAYBLEVISION
1:03:50 Dracula
1:09:58 Lockstepp
1:14:38 Government Cheque
1:19:44 Deepest Blue
1:22:41 To Heal This Wounded Heart
1:26:15 Golden Microphone
1:29:04 If You Hear Me Crying
1:33:06 Darling Of The Diskoteque
1:36:11 Dont Tell Me Im Wrong
1:40:59 Whats It Going To Take
1:44:27 Wild Rose
1:48:18 Durham City Limit
1:53:41 Crime Of Passion
1:56:55 24/7 Heaven
Doing the lord's work
Real one
Lowkey sus, on some op shit, who are u. How u know the whole tracklist, on the release day. It’s visible😮😢
Your an actual saint man thank you so muchchc🙏🙏🙏
@DeApEdin Plastic Raincoats?
This really does take me back to the days of playing Public Strain on loop back in high school. It's hard not to get emotional listening to this lmao
One of the best albums ever made
@@FOUL_TROUBLE agreed totally
Women s/t for me, but ohhh yes
Public Strain is a masterpiece-as is Thundercat’s Drunk! Nice pic
Same 💔
Given the state of the world at the moment, this album is a reminder than humanity is capable of creating something beautiful and meaningful, in spite of all of our flaws.
It’s aight I wouldn’t act like this is world changing or some shit. Just enjoy some lofi pop and chill
Couldn't have said it any better.. 🍻
@@dandrechesterfield5411 No one was said this was world changing. Did you respond to the wrong comment?
Meaningful and beauty won't exist
If Fat Elvis is elected president
@@hymospheir989 I've seen at least 20 people say that in this comment section
This is my first listen to cindy lee and the vibes this album exude revived my fossilized body. Im from the Philippines 🇵🇭 and were having an intense heatwave. But this album let me enjoy my suffering while laying down under our nipa hut with all the sweat and longings for a better life. Thank you cindy lee for a memorable afternoon!
Hope and pray for the best for you. Sounds really tough, glad you got some beautiful music to keep you company.
@@MrYoyoyigitiyo thanks!
"I hear the melodies of yesterday 'til the kingdom come": perfectly encapsulates what I am feeling
Hello SEA friend, Indonesian here... and yeah the heatwaves are no joke lmaoo...glad this album could help us enjoy life.... This album and Only God Was Above Us are my potential AOTY so far.
cheers
The internet rules sometimes
ceres and calypso in the deep time is also a vibe :)
Amazing that I can so quickly be directed to an obscure TH-cam link and hear a new landmark album I’ll be listening to for the rest of my life from an artist I had previously never heard before. This album is such a gift
I strongly recommend From Tonight To Eternity next
@@Rectangularification What's Tonight to Eternity?
Exactly…. It feels like a really special gift
“obscure TH-cam link”
@@unfun75yeah whats ur problem. Obscurity is relative
This sounds like a radio station playing inside someone's head. An incredible achievement.
39:50 fallout radio 📻
@@daymeeedababy Fallout radio is a great name for a glitch pop band.
And with D. Lynch filming it
Stop comparing to fallout, 99% of people listening to this aren't nerds @@daymeeedababy
Apt
I need a physical version of this more than I need air. Maybe the most amazing album I’ve heard in years!
Am I really buying an external CD-R so I can listen to this in my car's CD player in 2024? Probably, yes.
According to the Cindy Lee Geocities page, "LARGE RUN OF LPs WILL BE PRESSED A WHILE AFTER THE TOUR." April-May 2024, "final American tour", catch it --
@@scottalic4067 Probably need to be a 4LP! Pre order at the ready
Please come to Atlantic Canada cindy lee/pat!!!!
@@scottalic4067 too bad he cancelled the tour...betting he wont release this on vinyl either
This is one of the best comment sections I've ever encountered on TH-cam, this album and the community around it make me really glad to be alive at this particular time. Thanks guys.
How you liking the album?
Hell yeah dude. This album is so good
How did you get onto this? I just found the link in my email but I can’t remember who sent it to me
@@VanceRefrigerationneedle drop dropped me off here
I'm on it again today bro, vibing
These recordings feel incredibly personal and heart-felt to me. I can feel all the emotions while listening to this. It's really a beautiful thing. If there's one last thing I'll say it's this, this album is an absolute masterpiece that will be cherished for many years to come.
This album and combined comment section single handedly picked me up out of this massive four month long hole of sadness. this music is great. people are great. i will be okay. time for roof beers and this album all summer
Let’s fucking go
great to hear, to many roof beers!
hell yeah
Hell yeah brother
Damn straight, buddy. I'm sitting on a park bench in the sun listening to this. It's 9am, but I feel like some health issues I've had are finally lifting and, well, the sun has already come out. Here's to happier times ahead.
There are few albums that I consider life-changing for me, even fewer that have made me tear up. But god dammit, Pat flegel accomplished these twice. Both Public Strain and Diamond Jubilee are records that simply can't be described by language, but can only be felt by being experienced as a whole. But this one hits different, because it feels like the absolute culmination of Pat's maturation of their sensibilities and musicianship, and it shows (especially if you've been a Women/Cindy Lee fan for a while and have heard the hours of haunting experimentation, howling noise and sublime beauty that Pat has put out thorugh the years) and now it got to a point where their stuff sounds absolutely unreal.
I know this album will stick with me for a long time, just like Public Strain, soothing me and haunting me for as long as I'm around.
Same... Public Strain and Diamond Jubilee. 🤯❤🤯❤
Cindy Lee is a guy from Canada who was previously in a band called Woman. He dresses in drag. His other albums are on Spotify so hopefully this one will be added especially when it wins album of the year on every major music publication. The band Tool withheld their music on Spotify for the longest time and they admitted that it was a huge mistake. They feel a whole generation of music fans don’t know or aren’t aware of their music because they held out. Hopefully Cindy Lee will get wise to this Because this music is incredibly original. It reminds me a little bit of Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti but totally unique sound!
Cindy Lee’s music makes me feel like I wasn’t born at the wrong time
We need this on Vinyl. This is basically meant to be a vinyl and be played non stop
Hopefully this won't become one of those iconic albums that has never been officially released on wax. I hate thise bootlegs
It would be at least a triple vinyl.. Maybe even quadruple.
I would buy it
How about a good old CD release. Not nearly as expensive as vinyl releases, and you don't have to get up to change the sides nearly as often.
@@Braunld you could might as well demand a Spotify release. You wouldn't even have to change any sides. The whole idea about vinyl is its inconvenience lol and its still the most fun to collect and spin
Word around town is this might be the final Cindy Lee album. If that turns out to be so, what an album to go out on. A masterpiece of lo-fi pop.
@@attherasco agreed. Hope Pat keeps making music in some way. If he keeps making stuff, I'll keep listening.
makes sense, only half or less of the album has Cindy on it ]:
the Realistik website is calling the upcoming tour Cindy Lee's last American tour so i think it's more of the case that their visa might have expired and they're not gonna renew it. Could be the end of Cindy Lee but i don't see it being the last of Pat. They've mentioned in an interview wanting to do more collaborations
Maybe there's one more disc of material left? I hope we get a recording of Tend to my Garden 🙏
@@campanocorp The website says triple album, and this ends midway through a note - thinking there's def a third act hiding.
Took me a while to listen to this one but I listened to this on a road trip back home with my newlywed wife from our honey moon and I have never felt such a sense of euphoria in my life, being present in that particular moment in life all while listening to this album was something of pure bliss, something so so beautiful and this album hits that mark of never ending beauty and unforgettable moments we share in this wonderful life.
I feel like I’ve somehow tuned into the most beautiful and haunting radio broadcast from a parallel universe. This is truly epic
This!!!! Omg I feel like I’m mentally on an interdimentional road trip listening to this on the radio…it’s epic and beautiful
😊
Don't dream it. Believe it.
I love coming back to this and looking at the new comments. I can't stay away from this album
It's absolutely insane how this album has blown up in popularity. I'm so glad!
Me too,best comments ever,doing it now
same. i love it so much. and i just recently listened to the whole thing in one sitting (the ads are such vibe destroyers) but i cant get enough. i even think about it when it's not around. crushing hard on that cindy lee diamond jubilee ❤
Me too. Continues to haunt me.
@@nicholasmanolaros2290 i actually took a bit of a break. well over a whole week. you see, i've been listening to some other great bands lately... but i find myself thinking about sweet Cindy Lee Diamond Jubilee afterwards. they got quite the sonic hold on me. in fact, i am gonna listen to the whole fucking thing tonight again, volume way up with my finger hovering over the mute button ads be damned. i cant waaaait 😍
Dancing at the Bang Bang Bar in Twin Peaks. David Lynch would be proud! There is space in this world for all of us unique creatures to meet at a crossroads and revel in the emotions we all share and experience.
this is like the perfect roadtrip album
Perfect soundtrack for life
Absolutely. I listen to it driving all around town almost everyday. At least a song or 3 a day!
Yesterday one of the most interesting people I know said “you gotta listen to this” so I went home popped a gummy and listened to the entire album. Listened again today. It's gotten into my bones. Kingdom Come, Wild One, and Flesh and Blood are early favourites. The instrumental at the end of Don’t Tell Me I’m Wrong made me weep (1:40:00). La Machiniste Fantome wtf…it’s so gorgeous. I’m overwhelmed and intoxicated and I’ve only been with it for about 24 hours. Capital A Art here.
10mg gummy oh nooooo eat a whole brownie and go for a walk
It worns its way into your head. Certain songs will be your fave, and then they will get replaced with others.
Seems to me that you have good taste, sir.
Only part way through my first listen. Just hearing Wild One. So good. So far I have not wanted to skip a single tune.
You know when you hear something truly brilliant, maybe the way a guitar emerges then blooms or a snare kicks in or a bass twirls, and you think 'i need to hear that again, right now' and you reach for your phone, and then you think 'no, i'm going to hear that moment hundreds if not thousands of times across the rest of my life' and so you just lean back and let it keep on coming. That. So many times. I have met a new partner. Thank-you Patrick.
Spot on
how i feel every time i listen to my boi uyama hiroto... legendary
I was reading your comment right when the share kicked in :)
One of the most gorgeous and transporting albums I've heard in a long time. I want to share it with everyone I know but they're like "why are you texting me a Geocities link lol"
I love the geocities site so much
hahahahahahahahahahaha feel you
@@moonshake1234 the artwork on it is perfect.
This album is giving me life, thank you. And to whoever is reading this, I love you, we will be okay
I love you too, Dingusbingus666. We will be okay.
im taking a dump rn
Ew
@@zefereater4741 i just took a dump and trust me it will feel fantastic after. i love you we will be ok
I love you too ❤
Just saw Cindy Lee last night at a sold out, shoulder to shoulder, 300 person capacity Hi-Dive in Denver, Colorado on a Sunday night! What a transcendent night to hear songs from this incredible album performed live!
I was there and will never forget.
I was working next door at sputnik lol, I should've gone to this show
Damn I only discovered this album today.... Shame, that show sounds like it would have been incredible. Denver has such great crowds
This is the first album I've listened to straight through, front-to-back, in a long time. Gorgeous.
Seriously not a bad or misplaced moment on this thing. That is extremely difficult to do for even some of the best records of all time.
@@frankvazquez5974let alone for an album being 2 hours long and having 32 somgs
This is like the "Pet Sounds" for the 2020s, even the "worst" tracks are so well placed you don't want to skip a single second going through this wonderful journey....
Cindy Fucking Lee, the truest rocker
Love at first listen is real.
It’s rare but real
same for me =) i just can't believe my ears.... 🥰
you have to have a certain taste in music to like it at all) and from the first time it's very cool.
what kind of music do you like?
stupid question)
I wouldn't be able to answer that question clearly.
I would say high music, good music. music is either good or not. i like GOOD music =)
I've gone in a week from "why is this being recommended to me?" to "It's okay, I suppose, but not great" to "Holy fuck, this is brilliant."
this album makes me believe in humanity again, if humans can make something this wonderful I think we will be alright, and if not, at least I got to enjoy this
straight up already one of the best records of all time.. thank you
omg fog lake!!!
Shoutout fog lake please come back to cactus club
I second this emotion. A modern masterpiece.
you killed it at lee's last week!
Finding this album while wearing a fog lake shirt, wonderful day
Greetings from Ukraine.
Different music I listen and play, a little bit. Raised on hippies and rock'n'roll ...
TH-cam suggested it to me.... Always recommends very interesting things.
I'm honestly shocked, I didn't expect such beautiful true music to come across these days, 2024.
I would really like to hear it live, to be at a concert. But alas ...
Hugs from Canada. Stay safe my friend!
Слава Україні
слава Україні
Hugs from Melbourne Australia. Not lost on me the haunting reality that we can both be listening to the same music in such incredibly different situations.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤
god the comment section here is so beautiful, sending all my love out there to all my fellow cindy lee heads, may you stand strong and keep slaying xxoo
wonderful
I don't even want this on Spotify. I just have a dedicated music app to play the WAVs. The Cindy Lee app.
SAME
how? could you share how to replicate?
@@moussanbani the WAVs are on the realistik geocities. I added them to my plex server and set a library to music and pointed it to the directory of the WAVs. You would probably be better off converting the WAVs to an MP3 and just syncing them to your phone’s music app or adding them to Spotify offline files on your computer and using your phone to download those files locally.
@@moussanbaniThe VLC mobile app is great as a music player, it lets you drag and drop files from your computer onto your phone
This is one of the best albums I've heard in a decade. Wow.
really?...a decade? yikes
So this is what it's like to be floored and lifted at the same time.
I try to avoid throwing the word "masterpiece" around.
This is a masterpiece.
It is a world unto itself, fully realized, heartbreaking and true.
An album that reminds you music is the heaven we long for.
How can you be nostalgic for a song while listening to it for the first time?
Same
Had the same thoughts about Thee Oh Sees (as they were known around 2011ish) and Ariel Pink's middle output. Seek out the live cersion of 'Gilded Cunt' by thee oh sees. It really shares its atmosphere with this fine album😂
That’s the genre for u! Love this kind of music that embodies nostalgic memories/influences and lo fi recordings
How can I love you without knowing who you are ❤
El amor es un lenguaje universal@@julianshields7338
First time I write a comment, ever. This is out of nowhere. I am completely blown away! I want to know more about this amazing artist. Every sounds, every arrangements are speaking my language. The low-fi production is deliciously on purpose and strike hard. Wow.
Prepare to go down the rabbit hole.
Flegacy and Fleglore.
Dese are blessed almighty.
Cindy Lee is Pat Flegel, formerly of the band WOMEN (the band of both Flegel brothers - for the other half of the duo, check out his band Viet Cong/Preoccupations).
Preoccupations is amazing!
They have a new record coming soon too.
Running this on 24/7 loop with a solar powered iPad for carbon neutral hits
Hard
Hard
Weak
heavy breathing during listening unfortunately increases your net output
I need this shit on CD, on vinyl, on a T-shirt, burned into my fuckin lips
Sometimes a record takes some time to grow, but this one grabs you fast as a rusty oil tanker train careening through the north american plains.
I'm shoutin and stompin and cryin and I am beggin for more
Holy lord jesus instant classic!!!
Right there with you friend. I keep coming back here looking for some breadcrumb of news that a vinyl pressing is in the works. PLEASE!!!!
@@jasonshields9443you can pre order the vinyl now, will be released in February!
@@jasonshields9443idk if my comment was deleted, but it’s available on vinyl now!
@@VenusForever-u3l saw that as well, woo hoo!!
What an incredibly generous gift this album is, I can't get enough of it!
The contrast between this and Acts of Tenderness is crazy lmao… shout out to Cindy Lee for surprise dropping the best album of the decade so far .
One of the best ever. Period.
5 months in, who’s still with me?
Meee
Oh yea
Still jamming it every single time I've had more than a couple drinks. I forced my parents to listen to half of it when I was dropping them off @ SATX earlier this week. They loved it as well. It's absolutely timeless. Edit here: Also my cat Barbara Beaks fuckin loves it, Probably because she notices how it immediately makes me chill tf out,
@@jonpilgrim7820literally playing it for my folks rn ha
absolutely!
At 52:50 this reaches heights I didn't think modern music could reach
Indeed
Love that it's a call out to 'flesh and blood' Like a shadow of a shadow.
By the time Baby Blue ends I am completely submerged in this world and I just want to exist, breathe, drift along until it ends. What a gift
Driving a vintage car down a dark, foggy road while a pirate radio station fades in and out….every tune from a time long gone yet also, somehow, right here. Right now. With you.
Love this sentiment - writing a blog about the album next week and may use this comment if OK?
Cindy lee making a hit is insane to me im so glad people are catching on
booking my ticket to get photographed outside the alberta terminal - the new salford lads club
good call
This building is in Lethbridge, Alberta, north side of town beside highway 3 :•)
This first time listen will stay with me forever.
im living it right now in my office
If this was pressed on vinyl it would never need to be changed off the table. All the things I love about the last 50 years of rock and roll distilled perfectly into one collection. Kind of feel like jet lagged Mike walking into Dan Flashes for the first time.
Soon hopefully 💾😊
it'd have to be a 4 disc set, 32 songs = changing sides 8x in one listening session.. fun activity or course! but seamless listening is perfect for this work. mildly ironic, given they've barred it from all streaming platforms except bandcamp. i doubt they even want this on youtube. it's a tad pretentious in 2024 but also correct.
It will be after Cindy’s North American tour
Imagine me and 400k other people that look just like me listening to the same 2hours of music
This album makes me feel that everything is going to be alright.
It takes me back to a time when things were a little more simple. You could just make music and listen to it and enjoy your life...
So TRUE 🎉@@frankvazquez5974
girl who’s going to be ok
This album enables me to exist in a David Lynch film regardless of whatever mundane activity I may be doing at the time. Truly wonderful!
You nailed the vibe. It’s the best. 💜
Totally. If I heard this without knowing who it is I would have thought it was a new Stephen Merritt project.
Seeing a mother rock her baby back and forth in the grocery store while I'm having a fairly high fever and listening to this joint for the first time was such a wonderful little scene ❤
I don't think I've been this enchanted by an album in ages; I've had it on as the main album in rotation in my day-to-day since it released, and not a single second of mine has felt lost/bored. absolutely incredible work on Patrick's part, such a beautiful world to explore life along side.
the best things in life are surprises, what a wonderful surprise this is
Im going through some dark times but this album unexpectedly met me at the onset… and held a light bright enough to keep me moving forward without ignoring the sadness i have yet to endure. Thanx for being here and helping me through this moment.
I would love to end it all listening to 24/7 Heaven
Good luck with your passage. Have you read Nick Cave's red hand files? They've helped me with the sadness. Crikey, that guy has been through it.
I saw cindy lee and heard her live for the first time at a show in denver co and it felt like watching a women sing by the piano is a smoky dark bar in the 1960s and this album gives me the same ethereal experience
This is the best record I've heard in years - listening with tears in my eyes
Cindy Lee you have been the soundtrack to the last four years of my life thank you for sharing yourself with the workd
This album is making me cry. Its beautiful. Truly a light in these strange times we live in today.
0:01 Diamond Jubilee
5:23 Glitz
9:32 Baby Blue
13:28 Dreams Of You
16:14 All I Want Is You
19:14 Dallas
22:30 Olive Drab
24:01 Always Dreaming
27:44 Wild One
29:49 Flesh And Blood
35:03 Le Machiniste Fantome
36:05 Kingdom Come
40:47 Demon Bitch
45:11 I Have My Doubts
48:43 Til Polaritys End
52:49 Realistik Heaven
56:30 Stone Faces
1:00:54 GAYBLEVISION
1:03:50 Dracula
1:09:58 Lockstepp
1:14:38 Government Cheque
1:19:44 Deepest Blue
1:22:41 To Heal This Wounded Heart
1:26:15 Golden Microphone
1:29:04 If You Hear Me Crying
1:33:06 Darling Of The Diskoteque
1:36:11 Dont Tell Me Im Wrong
1:40:59 Whats It Going To Take
1:44:27 Wild Rose
1:48:18 Durham City Limit
1:53:41 Crime Of Passion
1:56:55 24/7 Heaven
sum1 beat u 2 it bub
Thank you
I feel so absolutely moved by this album, I feel like every relisten of each and every track carves deeper into my being.
This is the coolest thing I've heard in a while. I'm getting some Velvet Underground and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti vibes but this album is truly it's own.
The record is wonderful, a true masterpiece. I also get the feeling that the Cindy Lee era is over. Maybe it is just my impression, but I sense both from the song titles and the lyrics the theme of death or at any rate the acceptance that something is coming to an end, peacefully. One would have to understand in what sense, though. It is probably my very personal interpretation. If it is a farewell, it is the most beautiful farewell they could give us. Thank you so much Pat for all this amazing music.
Totally feel this
Yes, a eulogy- but also a celebration. It seems appropriate.
Pat said on their website this is the last one :(
I'm pretty sure Pat is just retiring the Lady Woland / Cindy Lee persona, and will continue as Realistik Studios. Possibly moving back to Canada too but I'm not sure on that one.
@@hivedrops8326I think, however, they were referring to the North American tour, not to the fact that Diamond Jubilee was their last record. I interpreted it that way. Otherwise what I hear from the record personally is a farewell.
A “diamond Jubilee” is the 60th year anniversary of a ruling monarch. So it makes sense to the theme of the album to call it that as it runs through about the past 60 years of North American music and its genres. Maybe that’s just coincidental but I like to believe it isn’t. I would say this starts about ‘64 with the genres Cindy is playing. This is absolutely wild. Multiple genres connected by a common theme.
2 years and i'm in my 6th decade. Haven't expected to be drawn in like this from a 2h double album again ever. Found a recommendation from a german over-regional newspaper which probably had a look at some music review sites but the review was very positive so I tuned in, wasn't disappointed at all and quite interested.
(started with progressive rock in the 70s, punk in the 80s, post-punk in the 90s, avantgarde in between, post-metal somewhere in there too, add some stuff I totally missed like the talk talk progression back then, re-discovering ambient and more...)
This is like an old friend you've never met
Haha yeah I told my buddy it’s like something you love but never met…
Nice to meet you too 😊
I was not expecting this! Nothing but 60s pop guitar mode from Cindy Lee PLUS disco beats?!? This is all I'll be listening to for the foreseeable future.
Saturday afternoon, a smoke, my sleepy puppy, some incense, and this … life is good with good music 💜
sunday morning, some Missouri weed, and coffee works well with this too
Gonna be remembered in 30 years as the best record of 2024.
seeing how women's public strain is still looked as a classic from 2010, I bet this will also be seen as a classic for many years to come
Remi Wolf’s Big Ideas will be best of 2024.
Album of 2024. No contest
Adding to the choir. A deranged and amazing masterpiece. An AM radio transmission from another dimension and time. I love it.
I love when music isn’t overly produced.. it reminds me of my youth.. just raw. Isn’t it amazing that all the greats sound effortless. I cannot stand when it’s so perfect and pure sounding on a record.. i miss the era from the late 60s through early 90s where there was almost a washed out sound to the recordings. Not sure what gave it that sound but its so much more pleasant to hear than teh really over produced pure zero error sound..
I don't know so much about what went into the songs, but whenever I listen to this album I am haunted by the fact that these chords and melodies are so beautiful, yet the vocals and words point to the kind of quiet sadness that has quietly followed someone for a long time. It makes me really sad that they decided to hang up this project right after this came out, yet I am touched by the authenticity behind the decision. I cannot imagine the wounds behind this music, but I am grateful that this album exists, both for Pat and for those who find themselves reflected in the mystery that it paints.
How strange it is to see so deep into someone, only for them to vanish and to have so many unanswered questions.
The world is going to be okay because this album exists.
nope. but i won't complain about the soundtrack while we burn.
@@bonkyrogers5828it just means there’s still something worth hanging on to.
Finally hit 1 MILLION spins!! True 💎 of a record.
Oh my, did I just unwillingly come across a gem?
Yes
Un periodo difficile, un orizzonte basso e poi...la musica. Questa musica. Che meraviglia. Devo ricordarmelo sempre che la musica può avere questo potere.
Its such an honour to have gotten to see pieces of this album develop and be performed on three separate occasions (twice in Calgary and once in Oakland). I love listening to this album both live and recorded, it is truly a masterpiece. I
disc 2 is just nonstop bangers
Perhaps the most solid body of work I've ever come across.
New Cindy Lee fan here from New Zealand! Wow what a listen. Sounds like how I imagine the world once was before mass media and smartphones.
Long time fan of Women, Cindy Lee and Preoccupations here. I have absolutely loved every release from these artists but this is just gigantic. Likely to be my favorite release this year.
I was completely obsessed with that song "black Rice" so many years go. Its giving me some real nice brainsauce that it evolved into something so singular and amazing.
Heat Distraction is an absolute classic
Same feeling as first time I heard pixies or velvets best album ive ever heard
I just clicked to check out a song or two, and here I am almost two hours later...hooked.
My thoughts exactly
Magnificent! Been a Flegel-head since seeing Women at the Royal Canadian Legion in 2008.
Keeping my fingers crossed for a physical release of this incredible double album
Bought from where？It’s not even on AM or Spo and it doesn’t have physical copies😢
@@willchan9960 look on cindy lee geocities
@@willchan9960 they will be doing vinyl pressings after the tour
Fleghed
I didn’t realize I could be nostalgic for something I had never heard before
If this album means one other person will fall in love with Cindy, Women and Calgary Sound, it will all have been worth it
Add me to the list of fallen❤️
I'd never heard of Cindy before this. Absolutely worth the hype. What a wild crazy fuzzy trippy poppy album.
I would love to imagine that, somewhere there is a world that exists in which I will mean as much to anything as much as Pat's music catalogue has meant to me.
Diamond jubilee is the magnum opus, a true landmark.
This music broke down all of my walls and made me feel like a child again
Effortlessly weaving through over 20 different sub genres spanning nearly a centuries worth of music. Special project.
I haven’t bought CD/vinyl in ages (4 years or so) but this masterpiece has to be rewarded. Please take my money Cindy.
the whole guitar solo/ending section of Lockstepp with its phasing guitar lines and abrupt change to explosive repeated drum lines might be the best and most psychedelic things i've heard ever. god this album is so iconic and will stay in my life.
2 hour album yet none of it feels like filler. That's super impressive
I’ll be here in the year 2047 still blasting this incredible album 🫶
what about 2048
You don't want to start with that game, it's far too addictive.
Hope we'll be back in this comment section in 23 years
This album is just insane! I almost have to pinch myself to remind me its 2024 you get soooo lost in this sound. Unreal talent...and its 2hrs long, just shocking all around
After so many years of TH-cam, I can already tell if I'm going to love an album just by looking at the cover.
Saw them perform last night. I can't truly explain how this made me feel, but it's an experience I'll never forget. One of the most talented artists I've ever seen in person. Thanks Cindy/Pat.
This reminds me of the first time I heard Guided By Voices. I was taken aback. Not that it sounds like GBV, but my surprise was similar
the best album i’ve heard since TSB, sir!
i was about to say it reminded me of magnetic fields, not that it sounds like magnetic fields. just the virtuosity and sheer output and ability to shock me out of my 2020s indie ennui
I think that this is even better than GBV
I get what you mean. The lofi chaotic blending of homages, etc. Although GBV was more frenetic and less traditionalist.
@@basehead617thanks!