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Collaborating with underground music legends such as \u003ci\u003eSonic Boom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlan Vega\u003c\/i\u003e of Suicide, and \u003ci\u003eAnton Newcombe\u003c\/i\u003e, The Vacant Lots have carved their own unique sound in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by artists like Alan Vega, The KVB, Factory Floor, Sextile, Suicide, Lydia Lunch, Fat White Family, Ike Yard, and Sonic Jesus; The Vacant Lots' music is a blend of raw power and infectious melodies that captivate listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith their debut album Departure mixed by Sonic Boom and featuring vocals from Alan Vega on their second album [m=1168472], The Vacant Lots have proven themselves to be pioneers in the genre. 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Ethereal metallic synths and blistering electronics are driven by disco-on-downers dance beats lashed with gutter-rock guitar riffs and icy detached vocals with evocatively concise and lacerating lyrics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded over many sleepless nights and amphetamine-fueled mornings in the project’s isolated Brooklyn bunker home studios, the album follows the band’s minimal is maximal aesthetic coalescing into dark bedroom anthems for loners and lovers with nods to 70s\/80s punk and nightclub music ala Joy Division, Iggy Pop’s \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, Depeche Mode, and New Order. On the lead single “Amnesia,” Jared Artaud says \"It’s about dealing with duality and integrating the conflicting feelings within a relationship. It’s about feeling dissociative and getting burned by the fire. Then coping with how this inevitably leads to the dissolution of the relationship. 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Picking up high praise from the likes of Iggy Pop, BBC 6Music, Henry Rollins, Loud \u0026amp; Quiet, Uncut, Brooklyn Vegan, Line of Best Fit and countless others, ‘Interzone’ is a genre-blending synthesis of dance and psych that’s made for secluded listeners and all-night partygoers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUninhibited by the limitations of two people and continuing their mission of “minimal means maximum effect,” The Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen create an industrial amalgam of icy electronics and cold beats with detached vocals and hard-hitting guitars. \u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e's trance-like opener \u003ci\u003eEndless Rain\u003c\/i\u003e and the kinetic Krautrock stomper \u003ci\u003eInto The Depths\u003c\/i\u003e are followed by scintillating dark disco anthems \u003ci\u003eRescue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExit\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide 2 kicks off with 80’s synth-pop track \u003ci\u003eFracture\u003c\/i\u003e and haunting after-hours minimal wave \u003ci\u003ePayoff,\u003c\/i\u003e while \u003ci\u003eStation\u003c\/i\u003e and album closer \u003ci\u003eParty's Over\u003c\/i\u003e deal with disillusionment and conquering one’s indifference to make real change. The album creates order from chaos and delves into escapism, isolation, relationship conflicts, and decay. With nods to William S. Burroughs and Joy Division’s song of the same name, “Interzone is like existing between two zones,” Jared says. “\u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't mean one thing. It can mean different things to different people depending on their interpretation. Working on this album was a constant struggle reconciling internal conflicts with all that’s going on externally in the world.\u003ci\u003e Interzone\u003c\/i\u003e, in one word, is duality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album was engineered by Ted Young (Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile), mixed by Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Merchandise, Boy Harsher), mastered by Gianni Peri and is housed in striking artwork by long-term collaborator Ivan Leichti. The Vacant Lots have released singles with Mexican Summer and Reverberation Appreciation Society, collaborated on their debut album 'Departure' with Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, their second album 'Endless Night' with Alan Vega, and most recently on their two EPs, 'Berlin' and 'Exit', with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe at his studio in Berlin. 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On Fuzz Club Records, the record packs 8 minimal is maximal salvos into 23 minutes that coalesce into a stun-blast soundtrack for today’s shattered society. New York City’s artistic skyline may have changed immeasurably since the last century, yet the minimalist post-punk\/synth-pop duo vividly gouge into the city’s immortal outsider spirit and underground cultural tropes, set against a pulsating backdrop of modern apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaced with evocatively concise and lacerating lyrics delivered detached and deadpan, ‘Closure’s spine-chilling onslaught of towering guitar shrapnel, ethereal metallic synth melodies and cold electronic turbulence comes infused with shades of New Order and Jesus And Mary Chain; the kind of modern disco and post-punk grooves that pillaged New York clubs in the 80s. Inevitably, the penetrating spirit of New York electronic trailblazers Suicide haunts the new record with its subterranean gravitational pull, having previously manifested physically when the two-piece befriended the late Alan Vega – leading to collaborations, support spots and Artaud now co-curating the ‘Vega Vault’ of unreleased material and co-producing and mixing the 2021 lost\u003ci\u003e Mutator\u003c\/i\u003e LP. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fuzz Club","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50424660197707,"sku":"1160224","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50424663179595,"sku":"1160222","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50424662622539,"sku":"1160221","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d65d4ccc-780c-4293-aa9d-e9f99a717680_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726781167"},{"product_id":"departure-1","title":"Departure","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited to 500 Copies on White Vinyl. 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