For Patrick Flegel, Cindy Lee is more than just a pop music project but rather an intimate extension of a life long exploration of recording art, the electric guitar, queer identity and gender expression. Inspired by among countless others, Kenneth Anger, Karen Carpenter and Akihiro Miwa, the new album What’s Tonight To Eternity is the culmination and realization of their deepest feelings, fears and desires spawned from a lifetime overcoming severe mental health issues and gender dysphoria. “Singers like Patsy Cline and The Supremes carried me through the hardest times of my life, and also provided the soundtrack to the best times,” they explain.
Known for their work as the lead singer and guitarist of the now disbanded and much heralded band Women, we see Flegel take their songwriting and sound to a new level with nine songs that bend further towards high atmospherics and bracing melodies, creating a unique world where splendor and sheen naturally collide with experimentation and abrasion. Delivering moments of true beauty through somber explorations of longing and loneliness, Cindy Lee is something to hold onto in a world of disorder.
Read more about What’s Tonight To Eternity below. The album is available for pre-order here.
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