Viet Cong Regular fit

Viet Cong Regular fitRecorded in a barn turned studio in rural Ontario, the seven songs that make up the album were born largely on the road, when Flegel and band mates Mike Wallace, Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen embarked on a 50 date tour that stretched virtually every limit imaginable. Close quarters hastened their exhaustion but also honed them as a group. With all four members traveling in one car, the mood conflated with the soundtrack, the soundtrack with the

with only a tiny pinprick of light beaming from the otherworld onto the far wall — upside down and blurred

when Flegel and band mates Mike Wallace

The soft-washed

“Banned” was written and recorded in a free-flowing stream of improvisation in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum

falling hard

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Women (2008) and Public Strain (2010)

mortality and undeniable beauty of life

The product of six years’ work

a blast of cold air in a burning hot place

pillowy vocal beds that somehow seem to neither begin nor end and a punkish ambivalence towards saccharine melodics that traditionally dominate the previous three structures