The prodigious debut album by the Calgary quartet. The seven tracks that make up Canadian quartet VIET CONG's self-titled debut album are a perfect continuation of the "Cassette" EP the band released earlier this year, which Stereogum had already called "magnificent." The album was recorded in an Ontario barn converted into a studio, but the songs were conceived on the road, as Matt Flegel, Mike Wallace, Scott Munro, and Daniel Christiansen toured over fifty dates. Their closeness forged them more than ever and stimulated their creative forces, drawn from the cities they passed through. But it was primarily the gray emptiness of Calgary (their hometown) that left its mark on the album, making it a raw, cold, and utterly original work, between post-punk, cold wave, and garage. The first single "Continental Shelf" is already hailed as one of Pitchfork's "Best New Tracks," which describes it as "Something divine."
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