According to a quick Google scour, a good portion of the internet is housed in a few unassuming grey buildings in a small town called Ashburn in the state of Virginia. If that’s really the case, then I can only imagine that a local construction firm has been working around the clock building an extension to one of these blocky data banks, frantically laying bricks—Yosser Hughes style—to house all the intense keyboard chat that has cropped up in the wake of Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee.
Depending on which drawn out, over-thought article you read, this two hour long waltz through the last 60 or so years of North American music from Patrick Flegel’s Cindy Lee project—only hearable via a Geocities site or a Youtube link—is either the dawning of a new age of independent music, or just another subject of unwarranted hype.
But none of this is worth thinking about. Download the album from Pat’s site. Buy an old iPod for £25. Get some headphones. Take a walk. Put this song on. Wait patiently ’til a minute and 44 seconds in…
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