Cindy Lee / Freak Heat Waves (SOLD OUT)

“Cindy Lee is a Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter, performer, and recording artist known
worldwide as one of the last great torch singers and as a living guitar legend. A transient drag
queen and dangerous drifter hellbent on corrupting the youth of America. They have sold out of
every album they’ve ever made, each record a bold landmark in the history of pop music. After 4
releases with the Superior Viaduct label (Suicide, DEVO, Alice Coltrane, Ennio Morricone) they
now self-release thru “Realistik Studios”. Beautiful and compelling Pop tracks and L-I-T-E torch
ballads in the great tradition of Roy Orbison, Ros Sereysothea, Gloria Ann Taylor, and Patsy
Cline. A blurring of fiction and reality is a theme, apparent in the contrast between grandiose
pop ambitions and amateur recording techniques.”

“For more than a decade, Freak Heat Waves have been steadily amassing a cult following and
earning acclaim from both critics and underground aficionados alike. Their music is a heady
cocktail that defies easy categorization, blending elements of post-punk, psych, dub, ambient,
house, and techno. Their eclectic sound has served as the soundtrack to countless DIY punk
shows, outsider galleries and sleazy discos, establishing the duo as iconoclasts with a
reputation for ignoring expectations and subverting genre conventions. While at times, the term
‘acquired taste’ may have seemed fitting, their latest release offers their most alluring output to
date. Mondo Tempo, the duo’s fifth LP, released through Vancouver’s Mood Hut, was primarily
recorded at their home studios in Montreal and Victoria. Building upon the electronic
explorations of their previous record, Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion), they inject their
signature sound with a smoother and sweeter blend of dance music. The album’s tracks feature
midi smoothness, trance mantras, dancehall grooves, ambient textures and vocal samples,
creating a world that is both captivating and immersive. Notably, the lead single “In A Moment
Divine” features a collaboration with Cindy Lee, resulting in a dance floor number that boldly
ventures beyond the familiar wheelhouses of both acts. With Mondo Tempo Freak Heat Waves
solidify their reputation as one of the most exciting and unpredictable acts around.”