''A Sectioned Beam'' is
Lansing-Dreiden
Lansing-Dreiden is an American band and art collective based in New York City.
Lansing-Dreiden was founded in Miami, Florida. Their body of work includes music, multimedia artwork (in the form of drawings, collages, sculpture and video), and t ...
's follow up
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. (EP) to their debut album, ''
The Incomplete Triangle
''The Incomplete Triangle'' is the debut album by Lansing-Dreiden. It was released on April 6, 2004. It is a mix of various genres, divided into three parts of 4 songs each (hence the name of the LP). The first section of the album is the most ...
''. It was released by
Kemado Records
Kemado Records is an American record label based in New York City founded in 2002 by Andrés Santo Domingo and Tom Clapp.
In 2006 the label released the '' Invaders'' compilation, which featured many of the label's bands alongside other hard ro ...
on November 16, 2004,
“A Sectioned Beam” by Lansing-Dreiden - Music Review - opus.fm
and was reissued on vinyl by Kemado imprint Mexican Summer
Mexican Summer is an independent record label founded in 2009 by Keith Abrahamsson and Andres Santo Domingo. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the label has released recordings from artists including Best Coast, Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink, Allah-Las, ...
in 2013.[
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Critical reception
Adrienne Day of ''Spin
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'' described the EP's music as ranging in styles from "dreamy space rock to sticky drum-machine retro-pop, with a psychedelic twist."[
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Pitchfork Media
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's David Moore wrote that ''A Sectioned Beam'' is "all smoke and mirrors, occasionally pretty but largely forgettable", and that the group "overextends itself at the expense of its music, which has arguably never sounded thinner or less cohesive."[
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James Christopher Monger of Allmusic
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said the EP "further cements the group as early-'90s Brit-pop revivalists posing as obtuse art-crowd misanthropes." Monger added that the collective's "impeccably executed pop songs are far less pretentious than their crippled social persona would suggest."[
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''Entertainment Weekly
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'' writer Suzanne Ely remarked that Lansing-Dreiden "deliver a heady mix built around ambitious ''Pet Sounds''-style orchestrations" on this EP.[
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Reviewing the 2013 reissue, Pitchfork's Miles Raymer suggested that ''A Sectioned Beam'' "evokes both new wave and the Madchester sound, which at the time struck some critics as outre but after years of chillwave acts doing a similar thing it seems strange to think of as out of the ordinary."
Track listing
References
External links
* (2013 reissue)
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2004 EPs
Lansing-Dreiden albums