Androgynous Mind - Knock On My Door
Thanks to a few kind people who have left comments on this post about Patrick Flegel's work post-Women, I found out about his new band, Androgynous Mind. I actually don't know if this is a brand new band, or just a renamed version of Fels-Naptha, but whatever it is, it's wonderful. Anything that features more of his singing and guitar playing is worth paying attention to, and Androgynous Mind's initial release, Nightstalker, has a lot going on. The first two songs, Bobbi and Good Friday, are almost Blood Brothers-esque thrashers, in the same vein as something like Guitarmy or Feed me to the Forest (short, brutal). The other three songs, one of which is Knock On My Door, are more relaxed, and all have weird, languid melodies, and the kind of sharp and brittle arrangements that came with most of the songs on Women and Public Strain.Knock On My Door is gloomy and slow, Flegel sings most of the verses like he's half asleep, dying, and he's joined by a female vocalist echoing a few of his words, inconsistently, in the background. I think one of the things that's most impressive about Flegel's songwriting is the way he can turn a song from being dim and dour--pure cloudcover--into something that opens up suddenly and brightly. Some of his best songs are like little engines of possibility: all the elements are there from the beginning, you just have to wait for them to express themselves.You can download Nightstalker for free at Androgynous Mind's bandcamp page. It also looks like they're playing at Sled Island in Calgary at the end of July.UPDATE: Someone named Zariff left a comment below with a link to a Youtube video of the band playing on the 9th of this month at Pinhole Printing in Calgary. Here it is.CINDY LEE ALBUM - DIGITAL VERSIONhttp://6cindy6lee6.bandcamp.com/album/tatlasheaALBUM DONE Mastered by CVG