Imaginary Third
La Castanya
2014
Rating: 8 packages of snack meat out of 10
The Van Pelt were an excellent post punk band from the mid-nineties that I listened to a metric shit ton back in the mid-nineties. The band broke up and the key members Chris Leo and Toko Yasuda went on the form the Lapse, a very similar outfit that I liked even more. Anyways, this record is exactly what the title says - their imaginary third album, had they released it after their second record "The Sultan of Sentiment." This is really more an EP than a full-length at 24 minutes long, but a new Van Pelt record is a new Van Pelt record and I'm not here to complain. And sure, some of these songs actually ended up on Lapse albums and at least a couple of tracks are from a Van Pelt seven inch so it's really not even close to a "new" record, but I'm still grateful to have all these tracks in one place. Especially since this happened out of out of nowhere, a very nice treat just to stumble across.
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