Lendi Vexer (Featured Group 4/2007)Topic: April
LENDI VEXER
Our featured group for this month hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Self-described as trip-hop, it's hard to thrust Lendi Vexer in that category and leave them there! They have trance, darker undertones, a little soul thrown in on ocassion... Their unique sound prompted Guto of Tripofagia to write, "Tribute to Desolation is one of the nicest melancholic trip-hop songs I've ever heard..." And to top it all off they're one of the most playable trip-hop bands *I've* ever heard!
This female-fronted band came out with their CD Suicidal Adage in 2004. It's one of the few CDs that I have bought based on instinct without ever actually listening to it. I got it in the mail about a week into 2005, popped it into my player... And wondered why in God's name I hadn't bought it sooner! Honestly, I had never been as pleasantly suprised as I was when I heard Lendi Vexer's music! It was just what I had needed- slowly driving, thumping, life-insistant and beautiful music with a dark edge that couldn't be denied. My mother hated them intensely... Not because the music was bad, but because after two months it was still the only CD I would listen to! Now it's 2007 and I'm still as much in love with Suicidal Adage as ever.
However, since I'd worn out my original CD, I needed a new one! I went to the CDBaby site, and lo and behold.... LENDI VEXER JUST CAME OUT WITH A NEW CD THIS MONTH! YES!! CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES! I actually listened to the samples, and they don't disappoint. They've thrown in a bit more of the rhythms traditional to jazz this time, but their vocals are still as enchanting (even if I can't understand them) and I still want to swishy-dance to every single track.
They've gotten themselves a bit more of an exotic sound this time around too, a little taste of India hiding in the background. All in all, their new CD, The Process of Disillusion, evokes smoky nights, bitter dissapointment and techno love. I may not speak Spanish, Portuguese, or whatever (if someone knows, please tell me, I'm a lousy linguist)... but I don't care. Lendi Vexer is a shining indie gem among the dull mainstreamed rocks of trip-hop, and you'll be kicking yourself for millenia if you miss out!
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Don't forget to look for Lendi Vexer on iTunes and Napster!