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Cindy Lee

Model Express - 2025 Repress

    'Model Express' a collection of B-sides and lost hits, first appeared as a self-released edition of 100 gold cassettes. The arch, filmic drama of Cindy Lee's songwriting – realized with keyboards, guitars, aching voice and collaged, lo-fi production – traverses a wide range of emotional and sonic terrain. The red velvet psych-pop of 'What Can I Do' gives way to the fluid 'Diamond Ring' like radio bursts from space. 'Model Express' finds Flegel at both their most experimental and immediately melodic, and this first-time vinyl release recognizes the collected tracks as a pillar in the Cindy Lee catalogue.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Kromax (Theme From Kromax AKA Real State)
    2. A Cold Fog Is Still Descending (KCP Sound Collage)
    3. Model Express
    4. Who You Want I'll Be
    5. What Can I Do
    6. What I Need (Alternate Version)
    7. Dry Dive
    8. Burning Candle
    9. Left Hand Path
    10. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
    11. Don't Let Me Down
    12. Diamond Ring
    13. Be My Shining Star (Instrumental)

    Cindy Lee

    Act Of Tenderness - 2025 Repress

      Cindy Lee is the diva alter-ego of singer / guitarist Patrick Flegel, the one-time captain of heralded Canadian experimental guitar pop act, Women. In Flegel’s working on / as Cindy Lee exclusively over recent years, their songwriting makes a move toward high atmospherics, often achieving a mysterious sweetness rooted equally in beauty and ache.

      As Cindy Lee’s third long-form statement, 'Act Of Tenderness' makes use of antipodal themes to create a living sound: static with grace, distortion and sugar, all masterfully arranged with crooked nods toward pop classicism. The layered vocal on 'Power And Possession' creates a palpable haunt, bringing historical girl-group lament to choir-esque heights. The feedback shriek and industrial grind of 'Bonsai Garden' provides near-operatic damage, yet never stumbles into the irrevocably grave. These snowy pieces give the album a decidedly cinematic feel, albeit one bent more towards Eraserhead. 

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Act Of Tenderness
      2. Power And Possession
      3. What I Need
      4. New Romance
      5. The Last Train's Come And Gone
      6. Operation
      7. Quit Doing Me Wrong
      8. Fallen Angel
      9. Bonsai Garden
      10. Miracle Of The Rose
      11. Wandering And Solitude
      12. A New Love Is Believing

      Cindy Lee

      Cat O' Nine Tails - 2025 Repress

        Originally released as an edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets in 2020 (fast on the heels of 'What's Tonight To Eternity'), 'Cat O' Nine Tails' has long intrigued die-hard Cindy Lee fans with its combination of the classic songwriting that would dominate 'Diamond Jubilee' a few years later and an actual suite of classical songs under the title itself.

        Opening with the gothic soap opera theme of 'Our Lady Of Sorrows' into the manic exploration of 'Cat O' Nine Tails', onto the dusty western walk through Patrick Flegel's lovely guitar work on 'Faith Restored', the album seems to soundtrack the coolest movie the late '60s ever produced. All of this builds to the lush and sweeping ballad of bruised hearts that introduces that beautiful voice via 'Love Remains'.

        Side Two sees 2024 live show closer 'Cat O' Nine Tails III' complete the suite to epic effect, before introducing the absolute showstopper that is 'I Don't Want To Fall In Love Again'. It is tender and fragile in that way that only Flegel can make both familiar and unique. Closing with the ethereal soul shuffle stomp of 'Bondage Of The Mind', the album showcases nine songs from an essential time in the Cindy Lee evolution.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Our Lady Of Sorrows
        2. Cat O' Nine Tails
        3. Faith Restored
        4. Love Remains
        5. Cat O' Nine Tails II
        6. As I'm Stepping Through The Gates
        7. Cat O' Nine Tails III
        8. I Don't Want To Fall In Love Again
        9. Bondage Of The Mind

        Cindy Lee

        Malenkost - 2025 Repress

          Cindy Lee is the brainchild of singer/guitarist Patrick Flegel. While some may know Flegel from his time spent in Canadian experimental indie band Women, Cindy Lee has spent the past four years crafting songs that push and pull in opposing directions – from tales of tragedy laced with haywire distortion to moments of breathtaking beauty.

          On 'Malenkost', Flegel combines everything that makes Cindy Lee so essential: heart-wrenching romantic pleas, rough shards of noise and twilit ballads. Featuring the lo-fi pop single 'A Message From The Aching Sky', Malenkost sounds like Deerhunter playing The Supremes or vice versa.


          TRACK LISTING

          1. No Worth No Cost
          2. Always Lovers
          3. Hopeless In A Trance
          4. Cash Money
          5. I've Seen His Face Before
          6. Gallows Smile
          7. A Message From The Aching Sky
          8. Coroner Of The State
          9. Claim Of Vanity
          10. Prayer Of Baphomet
          11. Death Sentence
          12. Hash Angel

          Cindytalk

          Camouflage Heart

            Cindytalk is the mercurial, expressionist outlet of Scottish artist Cinder, inspired by the crossroads of exploratory UK post-punk and early European industrial. Her work thrives on chance and transformation, collaging elements of noise, balladry, soundtrack, catharsis, and improvisation.

            "We were trying to find our own space," says Cinder of the formative period 'Camouflage Heart' emerged from, amidst a move from Edinburgh to London and Cinder's evolving exploration of gender identity, well before culture at large was equipped to understand. With contemporary discourse we see that the project manifested her transgender ideas as visceral music. The guttural, feral sound marked a notably darker turn from The Freeze's six- year run on the fringes of punk. Changing the project's name became vital, not just because they kept hearing the former was already taken, but the desire to embody the spiritual and sonic shift, "to uncover new pathways...to feminize it," she says. Cinder, with bandmates David Clancy and John Byrne, arrived at Cindytalk, a winking nod to Sindy, the British fashion doll rival to Barbie known then for its pull-string talking mechanism. "The goal was to have a more interesting narrative, more interesting dialogue. Music was ultimately my only way of talking to people. That was my conversation with the world, an abstracted conversation...an attempt to make some kind of tiny, tiny mark, if possible, you hope somebody will notice." Over the years, Cinder has heard from fans who did pick up on the signals and find refuge in 'Camouflage Heart'.

            'Camouflage Heart' plays with tension and pace, from creeping to feverish to claustrophobic. The percussion moves between restless marches and barely-there pulses; for some parts, they scratched and hit a tin bath, among other objects. Guitar lines vibrate and stab as Cinder contorts her voice freely. She pulls poetry from a cerebral abyss, like "make the snake in your eye, pierce the camouflage heart" on the slow-droning centerpiece 'The Spirit Behind the Circus Dream'. In that register is raw power, both vulnerable and menacing, an ability to locate something deep and emotionally charged within. "I still remember that person who was way too intense for their own good," Cinder reflects. "I couldn't make a record like that now, certainly not vocally, while that anger hasn't dissipated; there's still a kind of warrior."

            For all the destruction and disintegration of 'Camouflage Heart', Cinder maintains the objective was never full-on fatalistic; these songs seek not to destroy but to poke and provoke, to transform and heal, to find cracks of light in a crumbling world. She points to the last lines of the opening track, 'It's Luxury': "Don't look down," the lyric pines through static and rhythm. Cinder extrapolates, "I'm essentially saying, just keep fucking going. As time went on, for me, that falling became flying. 'Camouflage Heart' is the beginning of believing in flight."


            TRACK LISTING

            1. It's Luxury
            2. Instinct (Backtosense)
            3. Under Glass
            4. Memories Of Skin And Snow
            5. The Spirit Behind The Circus Dream
            6. The Ghost Never Smiles
            7. A Second Breath
            8. Everybody Is Christ
            9. Disintegrate ...

            Klasse Wrecks kick off a new year with a new artist, Glasgow based DJ and producer Stevie Cox. Stevie's second release is one of deep cerebral breaks and evolving technicoloured techno. Four tracks that surprisingly weave an already defined and recognisable sound from the young artist. Dont expect over-thought and over-cooked musings though, Cox keeps it fresh, to the point and relevant with most tracks clocking in around 5 minutes. There is enough playfulness to keep the gurners smiling and enough well-thought out drumwork to keep the feet moving, this tight selection will most likely find its way into a variety of record bags during its lifespan.

            STAFF COMMENTS

            Matt says: Klasse Wrecks continue with the hedonism after slaying us with that DJ Absolutely Shit joint from a month back. Stevie Cox comes thru with vacuum sealed breaks, wubbing b-lines and lashings of acid to send us flying head first into dancefloor euphoria.

            TRACK LISTING

            A1 My Lover Cindy
            A2 Noot Noot
            B1 Contraction
            B2 Squeeze

            Cindy Lee

            Diamond Jubilee

              Superior Viaduct and our new artist label, W.25TH, are proud to continue to be the home for Cindy Lee with the physical release of the celebrated album Diamond Jubilee. Universally praised, shortlisted for the 2024 Polaris Music Prize, and already hailed by Pitchfork as the 3rd best album of the 2020s, anticipation and conversation around the record has been high.

              Cindy Lee is the performance and songwriting vehicle of Patrick Flegel (who previously fronted influential indie group Women). Over several albums, Flegel has combined delicate melodies and sheer beauty with moments of experimentation. With Diamond Jubilee, Flegel’s undeniable songcraft comes to the foreground, embracing a more instant connection and accessibility. Timeless tales of love and longing, surrounded by sticky hooks, take the listener on an unforgettable journey.

              Diamond Jubilee was written and recorded over several years by Patrick Flegel in Toronto, Durham, Calgary and Montreal at Realis- tik Studios. The album was mixed by Steven Lind, who also contributes to several tracks and co-wrote “Baby Blue,” and was mastered by Joshua Stevenson.

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Laura says: Diamond Jubilee was digitally self released last year and garnered rave reviews from fans and media alike. It now finally gets a physical release through Superior Viaduct's new artist label, W.25TH. It's an absolutely sublime collection of vintage sounding pop songs, drawing on sounds and styles from the 1950's onwards: there's hint's of do-wop and soul, 60's girl groups, Velvetsy art-rock, folk and country. The pop waters are muddied with psychedelic waves at times, but for the most part it's laid back dream-pop, delivered in a sort of shimmering, otherworldy haze. You can imagine it perfectly soundtracking a David Lynch film.

              It's pricey, but at 32 track and over two hours long, it's worth it. An absolute gem of a record!

              Andy says: I first heard this Cindy Lee album with zero context playing on the office computer whilst I opened boxes of records. After about half an hour I began to wonder; what is this classic music and why haven’t I heard it before? Is it a compilation of great bands that for some reason didn’t make it?

              It sounds like a beautifully curated hazy mixtape moving through doo-wop, sixties pop, girl groups, psych rock, indie pop, synth pop and even dislocated disco! I started to imagine it was the haunted soundtrack to some long lost David Lynch film, playing on a lonely old medium wave radio in a deserted house on a quiet and still street. This wistful sound felt warped, fractured, brokenly lo-fi yet sophisticatedly arranged, sweet yet macabre and with a deep sense of longing laced throughout. It was the best thing I’d heard in a long time!

              Welcome to the mysterious world of Cindy Lee; the alter ego of Canadian maestro Patrick Flegel. Six years in the making and featuring 32 tracks spanning two hours of music, this could be your most exciting (and exotic!) musical discovery of 2025. It certainly was mine!

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Diamond Jubilee
              2. Glitz
              3. Baby Blue
              4. Dreams Of You
              5. All I Want Is You
              6. Dallas
              7. Olive Drab
              8. Always Dreaming
              9. Wild One
              10. Flesh And Blood
              11. Le Machiniste Fantome
              12. Kingdom Come
              13. Demon Bitch 3
              14. I Have My Doubts
              15. Til Polarity’s End
              16. Realistik Heaven
              17. Stone Faces
              18. GAYBLEVISION
              19. Dracula
              20. Lockstepp
              21. Government Cheque
              22. Deepest Blue
              23. To Heal The Wounded Heart
              24. Golden Microphone
              25. If You Hear Me Crying
              26. Darling Of The Diskoteque
              27. Don’t Tell Me I’m Wrong
              28. What’s It Going To Take
              29. Wild Rose
              30. Durham City Limit
              31. Crime Of Passion
              32. 24/7 Heaven

              Cindy Lee

              Whats Tonight To Eternity

                Cindy Lee is more than just a recording music project. It is the culmination of a lifelong exploration of art, the electric guitar, queer identity and gender expression. “Singers like Patsy Cline and The Supremes carried me through the hardest times of my life,” explains Flegel, “and also provided the soundtrack to the best times.”

                Following the dissolution of Canadian experimental indie band Women, Flegel would delve deeper into songwriting that bends further toward high atmospherics and bracing melodies—a unique space where splendor naturally collides with experimentation. Delivering moments of sheer beauty through somber reflections on longing and loneliness, Cindy Lee is something to hold onto in a world of disorder. What’s Tonight To Eternity, Cindy Lee’s fifth long-form offering, showcases the project’s most entrancing strengths: ethereal snowdrift pop and sly nods toward classic girl-group motifs.

                Recorded at Flegel’s Realistik Studios in Toronto and featuring younger brother Andrew Flegel on drums, the album travels hand in hand with a spectral guide. Flegel found inspiration for Cindy Lee in the form of Karen Carpenter, drawing on the singer / drummer’s early recordings as well as her look and style. “I found a deep interest and comfort in Karen’s story, which is a cautionary tale about the monstrosity of show business, stardom at a young age and being a misfit looking for connection.

                The darkness and victimizing tabloid sensationalism she suffered is easily tempered and overwhelmed by her earnest output, her artistry, her tireless work ethic. Something utterly unique and magical takes shape in the negative space, out of exclusion. What I relate to in her has to do with what is hidden, what is unknown.” What’s Tonight To Eternity remains a mix of pop culture indoctrination, pain and suffering, hopes and dreams, fierce confrontations and wide-open confessional blurs.

                Closing with the song “Heavy Metal” (dedicated to the memory of former Women bandmate Chris Reimer) and adorned by Andrea Lukic’s Journal of Smack artwork, the album continues the bold and rewarding path on which Cindy Lee has embarked.

                TRACK LISTING

                Plastic Raincoat
                I Want You To Suffer
                The Limit
                What?s Tonight To Eternity
                One Second To Toe The Line
                Lucifer Stand
                Speaking From Above
                Just For Loving You I Pay The Price
                Heavy Metal

                Acetone

                Cindy - 2023 Reissue

                  Originally released on vinyl in 1993 via Hut Recordings (UK), Acetone's debut album is now available in an expanded 2LP format and packaged in a gatefold - The is the first pressing in over 30 years.

                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Laura says: Originally released in the UK in 1993 on the long defunct Hut Recordings, everyone at the shop instantly fell in love with this album. Velvets infused slacker rock interspersed with shimmering, Americana tinged melancholy. Amazing!

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Come On 
                  Pinch 
                  Sundown 
                  Chills 
                  Endless Summer
                  Louise
                  Don't Cry
                  No Need Swim 
                  Barefoot On Sunday

                  Cindy

                  Why Not Now

                    RIYL: Sarah Records, Galaxie 500, Algebra Suicide, Mazzy Star, early Low.

                    “Everyone’s hoping that nobody sees/all our little efforts at dignity”

                    This last line of the title track from Cindy’s fourth LP Why Not Now? works as a slogan for Karina Gill's evolving musical vision. Her music is simple out of necessity and introverted in delivery, but the songs contain vivid worlds and are quietly ambitious. With this latest batch, Gill pulled the process of making Cindy music even more inward. “Some of these songs were first recorded as demos alone in my basement. I think that process set the tone for the record…Maybe it set up a kind of starkness,” she says.

                    Moving on from the fixed quartet that performed the first three albums, Gill worked alongside original keyboardist Aaron Diko to develop the songs and they enlisted players from the ever-blossoming SF pop scene to realise her minimalist vision -- members of Flowertown, Telephone Numbers, April Magazine, Famous Mammals, and Sad Eyed Beatniks to name a few. The collective sounds fill out the record perfectly with John Cale-esque viola on ‘August’, lo-fi fairground organs, and a tasteful full-band sound that crops up throughout. ‘A Trumpet on a Hillside’ is the most triumphant Cindy has ever sounded, all ascending chords and a wedding march melody tumbling out of an old synth. Still, some of the best moments are Gill alone, as on ‘Playboy’, just naked guitar and voice, and when the forlorn whistling solo kicks in, it feels like the loneliest star is imploding in a distant galaxy.

                    While the dream-pop tag is probably still relevant, this isn’t algorithm-fed genre ambience. Gill’s vocal/lyrical presence can be as gently momentous as Leonard Cohen or as intellectually potent as any ’79-’80 Rough Trade post-punk. “In writing a song”, Gill says, ”all the disparate parts of being me momentarily correspond, like car alarms and party music momentarily matching beats.” Cindy’s Why Not Now? is that muffled street symphony inside a passing daydream.

                    STAFF COMMENTS

                    Martin says: In possibly their most stark, minimalistic statement to date, Cindy present 'Why Not Now?'. Swimming with slow psychedelic guitar and haunting echoic vocals, it's both heartfelt and deep while not eschewing the keen sense of melody they've become known for.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. Why Not Now (02:33)
                    2. Standard Candle #3 (03:02)
                    3. Earthly Belonging (01:27)
                    4. August (02:48)
                    5. Wednesday (02:13)
                    6. A Trumpet On The Hillside (04:19)
                    7. The Price Is Right (02:54)
                    8. Playboy (03:26)
                    9. Et Surtout (01:55)
                    10. Standard Candle #4 (01:49)

                    Cindy

                    Free Advice - 2021 Reissue

                      Tough Love have partnered with West Coast imprint Mt St Mtn for the release of Free Advice, the instant slowcore/dreampop classic by San Fran four piece, Cindy. The full album is available to stream/download now, while a highly limited transparent vinyl pressing will be released on 20th November. Limited to just 250 copies, this pressing follows the long sold-out edition of 100 released earlier in the year and which was previously only available in the US.

                      Free Advice offers a somber-yet-uplifting take on sobered dream pop. Imagine if Galaxie 500’s On Fire didn’t have a guitar solo or if The Trinity Session was stripped of its folk & blues roots; it’s just pure mood. Like sitting in a half-empty movie theater that’s playing Alphaville or Wild Strawberries and watching patron’s heads briefly illuminated from the screen; Free Advice (and all of the Cindy output) transfers you to these momentary worlds.

                      Cindy is Karina Gill on guitar/vocals, Aaron Diko on synth/keys, Simon Phillips on Drums/Percussion, and Jesse Jackson on Bass/Keys + Simon and Jesse on backing vocals. The songs on Free Advice are these moments in mood: Phillips & Jackson’s rhythms create the foundation, while Diko’s keys rise and fall. Gill’s guitar rattles, vocals brood, and lyrics create these narratives that depict observers, not necessarily wronged rather, cautious and investigative of the world around them. 

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1 Discount Lawyer
                      2. Falcon Heavy
                      3. Seeing Double
                      4. Wrong Answer
                      5. Song 23
                      6. Fixed Idea
                      7. A Song In French
                      8. CSI: Creeptown
                      9. April Magazine
                      10. Free Advice
                      11. Lost On Me

                      Cindy & The Playmates / Paul Kelly

                      Don't Stop This Train / The Upset

                      Cindy & The Playmates, led by Cindy Redd (later of The Voices) and backed by Wanda Cunningham and Manesbia Pierce, deliver an upbeat funky floor filler. Copies go for between £300-400 pounds for this storming and evocative fist-clenching gem which builds dramatically with strings and an emotive lead vocal. Cut with Paul Kelly’s ‘The Upset’, which was the B side of his second single for Lloyd Records, the vehicle for Willie Clark’s Florida-based productions. A monster sound with a grinding funky backdrop providing the perfect foil for Kelly’s aching vocal; the chorus break is a guaranteed spine-tingling moment. Copies currently go for around £250 if you can find one. 

                      STAFF COMMENTS

                      Matt says: Catchy and bright, funky floor fillers from yesterday, earnestly repressed by your good friends at Deptford Northern Soul Club who should be awarded a medal for their services to soul.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      Cindy & The Playmates - Don't Stop This Train
                      Paul Kelly - The Upset

                      Cindy

                      1:2

                        Cindy is a band built around the singing and guitar playing of Karina Gill. She became a musician only recently, having sat on the sidelines while ex-partners and friends made their stabs at it. Gill describes a chance encounter with an abandoned Squire Strat left in the basement by a previous tenant, “mummified in electrical tape with the remnants of a burrito on the head stock”, that led her to begin carefully strumming her way through simple chords and making her own songs. After one interesting self-released LP, still finding their footing, the band made the masterful and buzzed-about Free Advice, which went from a limited cassette on local SF label Paisley Shirt to vinyl pressings on Tough Love (UK) and Mt St Mtn (USA).

                        Cindy’s third LP arrives in quick succession, the quietly devastating 1:2. Jesse Jackson on bass, Simon Phillips on drums and Aaron Diko on keyboards weave the perfectly thin web behind Gill’s slow Velvety strums and murmured melodies. The rhythm section brings the crude flow, while the keys add subtle and surreal counterpoint to the withering world Gill depicts in her lyrics.

                        “Just as a mood is made by everything taking part in a pattern of association, so the songs tie together seemingly disparate things by the logic of mood,” Gill tries to explain. This isn’t dream-pop sunshine bliss; half-closed black drapes hang on the window where the narrator stares into the middle distance. “Sometimes you say you’re feeling small/You plan all day for your own funeral”, she intones in Party Store.

                        Gill has a way of halting her phrasing that makes it feel like her thoughts are gently tumbling into the abyss. It’s this unsettling quality mixed with the hazy atmosphere that makes Cindy’s new LP 100% addicting and the perfect antidote to comfort listening.


                        STAFF COMMENTS

                        Barry says: The tenderly hushed vocals and lo-fi bedroom pop on offer here has echoes of a more melodic Moldy Peaches, but swims with a clever off-kilter writing style, lending less of a punky lo-fi haze and more of a whimsical, airy breeze to the pieces. It's really quite simple, and swimming in beauty.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. The Common Era (2:04)
                        2. My Friend (3:09)
                        3. Party Store (2:15)
                        4. Song 36 (2:51)
                        5. Lost Dog (3:55)
                        6. To Be True (3:55)
                        7. They Say What I Mean (3:43)
                        8. 1:2 (3:01)
                        9. Sincere Sound (3:12)
                        10. Deer In Japan (4:37)

                        After more than twenty years, and following two recent EPs and an extensive touring plot, the hugely influential and iconic Pixies mark their return with ‘Indie Cindy’, their first full-length album since 1991’s ‘Trompe le Monde’.

                        Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales with long-time producer Gil Norton (‘Doolittle’, ‘Bossa Nova’ and ‘Trompe le Monde’), ‘Indie Cindy’ is available on gatefold heavyweight double vinyl (including CD) and CD.

                        All artwork conceived by celebrated graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who designed all previous Pixies album artwork (in addition to Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, The Breeders).

                        Featuring the classic Pixies recipe of soft / loud dynamics, darkly comical lyrics and insanely catchy riffs, these 12 tracks are sure to win over die hard fans and newcomers alike.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        What Goes Boom
                        Greens And Blues
                        Indie Cindy
                        Bagboy
                        Magdalena 318
                        Silver Snail
                        Blue Eyed Hexe
                        Ring The Bell
                        Another Toe In The
                        Ocean
                        Andro Queen
                        Snakes
                        Jaime Bravo


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