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USA Out of Vietnam — Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes

USA Out of Vietnam — Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes (May 7, 2014)

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Ξ   USA Out of Vietnam: Light and dark in harmony
Montreal quintet melds drones, distortion and distended song structures with its own brand of pop music
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Album release: May 7, 2014
Record Label: Aurora Borealis / New Damage Records
Duration:     59:41
Tracks:
01 Archangel     10:14
02 You Are a Comet, You Are On Fire     7:47
03 Asphodel I 1322     14:19
04 Leg of Lamb     13:09
05 Tonight, the Dead Walk     14:12
Members:
Ξ  El Tigre, Fogman, Jordan Thomas Brown III, Son of Fogman, Blankie
REVIEW
BY ANDREW HANNAH, 30 APRIL 2014, 13:30 BST, SCORE: 7.5/10
While it’s great to hear a band that are fairly unclassifiable when it comes to neat genre pigeonholing, it does sometimes make my job as a writer a little more difficult when it comes to trying to describe to you what an artist sounds like. What it feels like and how it moves you is generally fine, as those are individual experiences for each listener — and I’m not here to tell you how to feel.
Ξ  ​Shadowy Canadian four-piece USA Out Of Vietnam are one such band. Their bio helpfully points out that they’ve shared stages with Mogwai, Swervedriver and Oneida so you might already be forming some ideas in your head of the music Fogman, Son of Fogman, El Tigre and Jordan Thomas Brown III (nice names, huh?) has created on their debut full-length Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes. Add to that the info that the record was recorded at Montreal’s Hotel 2 Tango (used by Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and features fifteen guest musicians including the sweetly angelic voice of fellow Canuck Patrick Watson then it’s fair to say this is an epic affair. An hour long, five tracks…yep, epic is a decent descriptor.
Ξ  So on opening track “Archangel” we hear riffs move at a glacial pace while vocodered vocals nudge at its edges shuffling the track on bit by bit before the track opens up into a glorious extended bridge, guitars sounding like stars exploding around you while a choir of angels heralds the end of the world in looped harmonies. “You Are A Comet, You Are On Fire” meanwhile goes straight for the jugular with heads-down metal chords, occasionally falling away to let you catch your breath, replaced by meandering shoegaze solos and then returning heavier and louder than before, broken by a spoken word sample and then repaired by a triumphant brass section.
Ξ  Just when you think you know where USA Out of Vietnam are heading — stellar post rock at this point — “Asphodel 1322” lurches in with sludge metal brutality but with an added air of positivity: think Deafheaven if George Clarke had a slightly sunnier disposition. The track is lifted by Watson’s vocal contribution as he’s looped and layered to sound suitably heavenly and whoever asked him to contribute deserves a pat on the back. “Leg of Lamb” is slightly disappointing post rock by numbers and that’s a touch annoying as it lasts for about thirteen minutes but “Tonight the Dead Walk” saves things from ending on a sour note via a barrage of thunderous drums and thrash moves, and some trippy, psychedelic intervals just in case you think that sounds a little run-of-the-mill.
Ξ  It’s the surprising moments that makes Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes better than your average post rock/metal record. Rather than making everything a muddled mess, the decision taken by USA Out of Vietnam to have such an array of guest musicians is what sets it apart from the routine. Having a gorgeous looped choir, a pedal-messing psych or shoegaze instrumental passage, using heavy brass or just going out-and-out metal is why the unclassifiable is great. If the band continues to avoid labelling, there could be plenty more fun like this to be had.
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Ξ  USA Out Of Vietnam have paired with Aurora Borealis in Europe, Japan and UK and New Damage for North America and Austrailia to release their auspicious debut Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes.
Ξ  Their musical influences are both transparent and widespread, and include black metal, doom, drone, minimalist composition, sludge, noise, post rock, shoe-gaze, dream pop, nineties psychedelia and classic seventies radio dial pop. Particularly transparent is this love of pop music, dense seventies-style production, and harmonized vocals that swerves around hairpin turns. If you really wanted to try to harness this slippery eel you could say that the band’s sound is as equally informed by the stacked production and pop savvy of Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O. as it is by the crushing heavy drones of Sunn O)))).
Ξ  On their debut, USA Out of Vietnam proudly boast of their love of lush harmony and infectious melody but also like to push past the 3 minute traditional pop format with 10 minute epics — psychedelic, in the truest sense of the word.
With over 15 guest musicians appearing on Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes (including Montreal singer/songwriter Patrick Watson who contributes treated vocal loops on two songs here), their debut is vast in it's scope, and abundant with rich sounds. Brass sections elbow up to detuned and distorted Marshall stacked guitars, spoken word sections appear in unlikely spaces, vocoder vocals appear within breaths of angelic choir vocals, vintage synth and sampled noises hover over lush string sections while a piano beds down with crushing Swans-style pummeling. The lyrics across the album mirror the sound that surrounds them, with themes grasping towards redemption that search for a sliver of light hiding in the darkness.
Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes slowly reels the listener in as opposed to attacking them with ballast and decibels. USA Out of Vietnam have created an enveloping and vivid piece of work — but flush that incense and peppermint flotsam out of your head because USA Out of Vietnam insist that this trip is for real.
“USA Out Of Vietnam is a four-piece Montreal band that doesn't fit neatly into any one specific genre. They combine elements of psych pop, prog rock, and drone pop so effortlessly that the resulting music is equal parts brilliant and confounding. The five track album is a heavy journey through various experiments with sound, making it a truly original project.” — Noisey.com
Ξ  USA Out of Vietnam's debut Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes will be released on gatefold double vinyl/CD/digital on May 7th, 2014 on UK label Aurora Borealis within the UK, Japan and Europe. The North American and Austrailian release of the record on vinyl, CD and digital will be handled by New Damage Records with a street date of June 24th.
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Ξ  USA Out Of Vietnam have shared stages with Mogwai, Swervedriver, Suuns, Scratch Acid, Loop, Handsome Furs, Oneida, Ty Segal, Locrian and more.
REVIEW
USA Out of Vietnam: Light and dark in harmony
Montreal quintet melds drones, distortion and distended song structures with its own brand of pop music
BY JORDAN ZIVITZ, THE GAZETTE JUNE 3, 2014
Ξ  When guitarist/vocalist/sarcasm machine Jonathan Cummins describes USA Out of Vietnam as a pop band, it prompts a laugh. Then you look at his face and think: Even Cummins can’t be this deadpan.
Ξ  “Maybe my perspective’s fucked,” said the longtime torchbearer for megaton heaviness. “We’re sitting here doing four-part harmonies in rehearsal and I’m like, ‘Wicked! We’ll be the new Arcade Fire!’ ”
Cummins made the pop-band pronouncement after the Montreal quintet stood before The Gazette’s cameras and churned through the punishing Tonight, the Dead Walk, from their about-to-be-re-released debut, Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes. The 14-minute colossus’s drones, distortion and percussive thunder didn’t rupture an unshakable melodic foundation, and two thoughts came to mind: These players masterfully balance light and dark, and there isn’t a box big enough to contain them.
“The one thing that keeps coming up in all the reviews I see is, ‘I don’t know how to classify this band. They don’t have a genre,’ ” drummer Eric Cohen said. “I guess it’s a nice thing, because I thought everyone would just call us a post-rock band or a doom band. If people can’t define you, in our case at least, I think that’s a good sign.”
Cummins proposed a number of definitions with varying degrees of seriousness: “Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours stretched out … a heavy Besnard Lakes.” Their bio pitches an absurd combination of ELO and transcendental drone-metal duo Sunn O))). “People jumped on that bait like crazy,” Cummins said. “But there is some truth to that. We do those Sunn O))) things, but if we stop there, then we’re just another drone band, which I don’t really want to do. Honestly, we all do think of ourselves as a pop band.”
It’s obvious which role Cummins, a veteran of the local music scene, sees himself occupying in the “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Old” harmonies he shares with guitarist Brendan Drouillard, bassist/keyboardist Jordan Brown and keyboardist Merida Anderson. Conjuring a choir standing in the face of a storm, the group vocals haven’t always been such a defining characteristic of USA Out of Vietnam, but the band did start as a way for Cummins to make music as group therapy.
Ξ  “I was just sick of my own voice,” he said. “In my previous band (Bionic), I wrote all the songs and dictated how everything was to go. I wanted other voices in the music, so it could get bigger.”
It did, but there were growing pains. The earliest incarnation of USA Out of Vietnam veered into a more-is-more approach to technique that ultimately didn’t fit with its co-founder’s interests.
“I’m too old to go, ‘Check out how good I am on gee-tar!’ ” Cummins said in his best geezer croak. “We grabbed a bunch of songs and went, ‘Now we’re doing these same songs, but this is how they’re going to go.’ And then we used a lot more drones, and it was more minimalist.”
Minimalist in the number of notes, not in scope or volume — or players. The lineup coalesced gradually — Cohen joined, then Drouillard, then Brown, then Anderson — amid a list of departed members far longer than most five-year-old groups can claim.
“That’s been our biggest hindrance,” Cummins said. “As soon as we started getting any sort of momentum, somebody left. It’s just real life. People have jobs and responsibilities, and a lot of people moved away.”
There’s a mutual admiration society in the current lineup, with Cummins expressing gratitude for his bandmates’ talents and other members relishing the opportunity to explore outside their comfort zone.
Ξ   “I’ve traditionally played with punk or metal bands,” Drouillard said. “I never sang before, and playing slower and having larger gaps between Part A and B can really bring out a lot of different melodies. I found, ‘Oh, I’m being creative again, and not just going through the catalogue of things I learned how to play on guitar and then doing them again slightly different.’ ”
“I was used to playing complicated stuff before,” Cohen said, “so it took me a while to understand what it takes to play slow and minimal. And now I love doing it. There are certain songs where I’m so excited to just lay down a foundation.”
Ξ  If a liquefied lineup was a hindrance, so was the delayed vinyl and CD release of Crashing Diseases, brought about by a tragedy of indifference and a comedy of errors. At first, Cummins said, “we were sending it to labels and absolutely nobody was listening.” The album was quietly self-released online two years ago, and after a convoluted knot of logistics was untied, a physical release has finally been slated for June 24 in North America, with Europe having been served last month. “I can’t believe it’s finally coming out,” Cummins said, adding that he has yet to hold the gatefold package, featuring immense psychedelic artwork by Andrew Dickson. “I mean, I’ve seen photos of it.”
Ξ  “It’s strange,” Cohen added, “after two years of it being in limbo and nobody really reacting, now when people do like it, I’m always surprised.”
The reaction is less surprising than the initial lack of one. From the cathartic harmonies of Archangel to the wrecking-ball devastation of Asphodel I, this is passionately performed maximalist minimalism. The towering production “used 125 tracks in some parts,” Cummins said. “String sections, brass sections” — and while the album predates Brown and Anderson’s tenure, there’s a sizable guest cast including Patrick Watson and Molly Sweeney.
With Crashing Diseases at last poised to reach more ears, registering on the right radar is a concern.
“I think it’s going to be difficult (to build an audience), to be honest,” Drouillard said. “We even find it difficult among friends. People say, ‘I love you, man, but it’s just not my thing.’ ”
“Some people are gonna hate it,” Cummins acknowledged. “Who the hell wants to sit through 14-minute-long songs?”
Cue a show of hands at the table.
“OK, me too, but not most people. Most people who are punk rock or whatever will be, ‘Fuck this.’ ”
Ξ  Maybe, which helps explain why Cummins responded with “oh, thank God” when assured that this write-up wouldn’t focus on his previous bands. (For the record, he was also in Doughboys. You stand a better chance of seeing a unicorn at Thursday’s album launch than you do of hearing Shine.) But perhaps USA Out of Vietnam’s entanglement of mind-altering drones, surging harmonies, Pink Floydian atmosphere and other strains of doom-laden psychedelia will find the audience it deserves: one that’s similarly impossible to define. It certainly helps that those monolithic compositions aren’t endurance tests.
Ξ  “Even when I play them now, it’s like, ‘That was 14 minutes?’ ” Brown said. “My old band (Trigger Effect) played a-minute-and-a-half-long songs. If it went over two minutes, we said, ‘Whoa, we’ve got to cut back.’ But I think because it builds and it does whatever it does so well, you don’t really get that impression (from us). It’s not like a 14-minute drone — there’s more happening than that.”
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The Mountain Goats — Songs for Pierre Chuvin (April 10, 2020)
Darnielle, Jon Wurster, Matt Douglas, Pete Hughes. ©Josh Sanseri
Erik Griswold — All’s Grist That Comes To The Mill (03/20, 2020)
Erik Griswold — All’s Grist That Comes To The Mill (03/20 2020)
Varga Marián — Solo in Concert (1. feb. 2018)
Joe Bonamassa & The Sleep Eazys — Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell
Midwife — Forever (April 10, 2020)
Moondog — On The Streets Of New York (Feb. 14, 2020)
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble — Where Future Unfolds (2019
Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All~Stars — Memory Game (03/27/20)
Pharoah Sanders — „Live In Paris (1975): Lost ORTF Recordings“
I Like to Sleep — Daymare (April 17, 2020)
MoE/Mette Rasmussen — Tolerancia Picante (March 25, 2019)
The Tiger Lillies — Cold Night in Soho (10 Feb. 2017)
The Tiger Lillies — Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted Palace
Sarah Jarosz — World On The Ground (June 5, 2020)
Kate Amrine — This Is My Letter to the World (Jan. 24, 2020)
Fiona Apple — Fetch The Bolt Cutters (17 Apr., 2020)
The Tiger Lillies — Covid~19 (April 10, 2020)
Veneer — Recovery (April 15, 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — The Departure (10 May, 2019)
BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff (24 April 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — There Are No Saints (14 Jul, 2017)
Brendan Benson — Dear Life (April 24, 2020)
Ali Holder — Uncomfortable Truths (April 10, 2020)
From Atomic — Deliverance (April 2020)
Whyte Horses — Hard Times (17th of Jan., 2020)
Gerald Cleaver — Signs (March 27, 2020)
Sophie Tassignon — Mysteries Unfold (April 24, 2020)
HOUPACÍ KONĚ: SOULKOSTEL 8 11 2019 (April 25, 2020)
Sarah Longfield — Dusk (April 22, 2020)
Ariel Pink — House Arrest (2002/Mar 2011/April 24, 2020)
All The Best, Isaac Hayes (A Spoken Word Album)
Prophecy Playground — Comfort Zone (Feb. 15, 2020)
Mark Lanegan — Straight Songs Of Sorrow (8th May, 2020)
Genesis Revisited: Live at The Royal Albert Hall — 2020 Remaster
Joan As Police Woman — Cover Two (May 1, 2020)
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Devon Williams — A Tear in the Fabric (May 1, 2020)
Johanna Warren — Chaotic Good (May 1, 2020)
emozpěv — Spolu (1st May 2020)
THE LEAGUE OF ASSHOLES — UNPLUGGED (1st May 2020)
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Zuzana Mikulcová — Slová
The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (8th May, 2020)
The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (8th May, 2020)
Cocteau Twins — Victorialand (April, 1986, Reissue 2020)
Coloured Clocks — Flora (May 2, 2020)
I Break Horses — Warnings (08 May 2020)
Hawkwind — Acoustic Daze (25 Oct. 2019)
Indoor Voices — Animal (Feb. 14, 2020)
I Break Horses — Chiaroscuro
Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles In Allem (May 29th, 2020)
100 Gecs — 1000 gecs (May 31, 2019)
Evergreen — Overseas (15 Jun 2018)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio — Angels Around (May 8, 2020)
The Feather — Room (10 July, 2020)
Eyvind Kang — Ajaeng Ajaeng (May 1, 2020)
Eyvind Kang — Ajaeng Ajaeng (May 1, 2020)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Mosaic of Transformation (May 15, 20
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid (October 6, 2017)
Mr. Alec Bowman — I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot (May 1, 2020)
György Ligeti — Lontano (22. Oct.,1967)
OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (March 3, 2014)
Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes (22nd May, 2020)
A.O. Gerber — Another Place to Need (May 22, 2020)
Kaleidoscope — Faintly Blowing (11 April 1969, Reissue, Remaster
Perfume Genius — Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (15th May 2020
Perfume Genius — No Shape (5 May, 2017) BC
Perfume Genius — No Shape (5 May, 2017) FC
Sungazers — Wasting Space (May 18, 2020)
Cermaque — Lament (22nd May, 2020)
Mountaineer — Bloodletting (May 22nd, 2020)
Jetstream Pony — Jetstream Pony (May 22, 2020)
Steve Earle — Townes (May 8, 2009)
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Ghosts of West Virginia (May 22, 2020)
Sixth June ‎— Trust (17 Jan 2020)
White Tail Falls — Age of Entitlement (May 29, 2020)
Weyes Blood — “Wild Time” from Titanic Rising
Nicole Atkins — Italian Ice (29 May 2020)
Deerhoof — Future Teenage Cave Artists (May 29, 2020)
Deradoorian — Find the Sun (Sept. 18, 2020)
Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways (June 19th, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — QUICKIES VINYL BOX SET (June 19, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — QUICKIES VINYL BOX SET (June 19, 2020)
This Will Destroy You — Vespertine (June 9, 2020)
Jake Blount — Spider Tales (May 29, 2020)
Jake Blount — Spider Tales (May 29, 2020)
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore — YOKOKIMTHURSTON
Psychic Markers — Psychic Markers (29 May, 2020)
The Memories — Pickles & Pies (May 29, 2020)
Songs for the Late Night Drive Home (Feb. 5, 2016)
Spc Eco — Dark Matter (Nov. 20, 2015)
SPC ECO — June (June 1, 2020)
Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind (April 3, 2020)
Norah Jones — Pick Me Up Off the Floor (June 12th, 2020)
Larkin Poe — Self Made Man (June 12th, 2020)
Ezra Furman — Sex Education [Original Soundtrack] (April 24, 202
Endless Field — Alive in the Wilderness (June 12, 2020)
Wesley Gonzalez — Appalling Human (June 12, 2020)
Noveller — Arrow (June 12, 2020)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Andrej Šeban — Triplet (March 22, 2019) inner cover
Andrej Šeban — Triplet (March 22, 2019) cover
The Crossing & Donald Nally — James Primosch: Carthage (05/2020)
Jerskin Fendrix — Winterreise (April 17, 2020)
Zoongideewin — Bleached Wavves (June 19, 2020)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS — A Long Way To Fall — Rebound (3rd April, 2020)
Sports Team — Deep Down Happy (5th June, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Car (2020)
Midlake — Antiphon (Nov. 4, 2013)
ANASTASIA MINSTER — Father ©Michael Haley
Jessie Ware — Glasshouse (Deluxe; 20 Oct 2017)
Teen Daze — Morning World
Jessie Ware — What’s Your Pleasure (June 26, 2020)
Art Feynman — Half Price At 3:30 (June 26th, 2020)
Bo Ningen — Sudden Fictions (26th June, 2020)
Khruangbin — Mordechai (June 26, 2020)
Pottery — Welcome to Bobby’s Motel (June 26th, 2020)
Orlando Weeks — A Quickening (June 12, 2020)
John Craigie — Asterisk the Universe (June 12, 2020)
Kavus Torabi — Hip to the Jag (May 22, 2020)
Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink (June 5, 2020)
Paul Weller — On Sunset [Deluxe Edition] (3rd July, 2020)
Corb Lund — Agricultural Tragic (June 26, 2020)
Christine Ott — Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) (May 22, 2020)
The Beths — Jump Rope Gazers (July 10th, 2020)
Ashley Paul — Window Flower (May 13, 2020)
Grey Daze — Amends [Deluxe Edition] (July 3, 2020)
Grey Daze ©Photo credit: Anjella / Sakiphotography
Ajimal — As It Grows Dark / Light (June 26, 2020)
Ajimal — As It Grows Dark Light (June 26, 2020)
Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound (May 4th, 2018)
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER — NEW VIEW (January 22, 2016)
Immigrant Union — Judas (June 19, 2020)
Julianna Barwick — Healing Is a Miracle [Japan Edition] (2020)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Colorado (Oct. 25, 2019)
Neil Young — Homegrown (19th June, 2020)
The Jayhawks — XOXO (July 10, 2020)
Joy Division — Closer (40th Anniversary) [2020 Digital Master] (
Daniel Bachman — The Morning Star (July 27, 2018)
Daniel Bachman — Green Alum Springs (June 6, 2020)
Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part (June 26, 2020)
Ytamo — Vacant (June 12, 2020)
Bright Eyes — Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Aug.
Thin Lear — Wooden Cave (24th July, 2020)
Devendra Banhart — Vast Ovoid (July 24, 2020)
Cub Sport — LIKE NIRVANA (24 July, 2020)
Sara Serpa — Recognition (June 5th, 2020)
Sara Serpa, Ingrid Laubrock, Erik Friedlander — Close Up (2018)
Klara Lewis — Ingrid (1st May 2020)
Buju Banton — Upside Down (June 26, 2020)
Son Lux — Learning Structures vol. 1~4 (Oct. 11th, 2019)
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learning structures, vol. 3: distance between us
The Boomtown Rats — Citizens of Boomtown (13 March, 2020)
Ralph of London — The Potato Kingdom (19th June, 2020)
Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (July 31, 2020)
Land of Talk — Indistinct Conversations (July 31, 2020)
The Heliocentrics — Infinity Of Now (Feb. 14, 2020)
TANYA DONELLY: Swan Song Series bonus tracks (FC)
The Heliocentrics — Telemetric Sounds (Aug. 7, 2020)