Diamond Jubilee

At first I said "oh no, another long, useless album from the tasteless community". But no, that was far from it. That was amazing, I loved it. Dracula is the best song (for now - I may change in the future).

Diamond Jubilee is a strange indie rock album by Cindy Lee. Strange in the sense that it is so long, so lo-fi, so hard to find on streaming media and still so intriguing. The tracks are sometimes more unfinished shapes of music, but it all works great. All combined it is a banger of an album and the best of 2024, though I understand it's not for everybody.

This album is available to listen to on Bandcamp: https://cindylee.bandcamp.com/album/diamond-jubilee One of my favorite albums of the last 10 years. I ordered a copy of it before I was 10 minutes into listening to it on Bandcamp when it was released. Very cool that this is on this list.

A little long, but very good.

Canadian musician Patrick Flegel's seventh album as Cindy Lee is an ambitious, sprawling collection that overflows with brilliant ideas. Some fascinating guitar work and vocals that perfectly contrast the raw, rattling instrumentation. Drawing heavily from 1960s pop with touches of The Beach Boys, Phil Spector girl-pop, and psychedelic rock. At over two hours and 32 tracks, Diamond Jubilee is undeniably too long. While the rambling, kitchen-sink approach has its appeal, the album's greatest strength is also its weakness. Cut this collection in half and you'd have a 45-minute masterpiece.

Lofi, 50s and 60s inspired, kinda cool stuff, just goes on too long

So nostalgic yet new at the same time. The songwriting throughout is just fantastic.

Is this too long? Maybe. It doesn’t feel that way, though. I loved every minute of this and it was my first time listening. There’s a perfect blending of genres, and fantastic experimentation with both production and instrumentation. The vocals are angelic and both serve as another instrument while also providing the final bit of emotion required to get these songs to where Cindy wants them to be. I couldn’t find this on the usual go to apps for listening so I heard it from a guy on youtube that posted the whole album. I’m not sure if a lot of the songs are intentionally meant to end abruptly of if that’s a product of listening in the wrong place. Great album either way. Glad to have heard it. Great inclusion. 4/5

I'm not usually a fan of double albums, let alone triple albums, but this album is perfect to throw on and let play in the background while you work. Just really solid music throughout with plenty of variety. Overall just very calm and relaxed rock album with a lot of thought and effort put into it 4/5

Nostalgic yet modern, a marvel

This album was assigned to me on November 3, 2025. Today is February 19, 2026. Since this wasn’t easily accessible on Apple Music, and I was loathe to sit and listen to YouTube for a 3 disc 2+ hour selection this remained my only Did Not Listen album so far. Well, I ran out of albums for a while and decided to make an effort and listen to this. I’m glad I did! This is very interesting and pretty unique. Dreamy, with sounds that at times feel like maybe what The Shaggs might have evolved into after decades of practice… there’s a great and soothing charm to this that really appeals to me. I’m glad I did the work for this one!

An absolutely encompassing LP that sounds exactly like how driving through Midwest America feels. I’ve always been a fan of Flegel’s work since his defining years in the band Women, and his artistic career feels as if it’s been building towards an artistic statement like this. His characteristically angular, trebley guitar lines have softened into limber, fluid melodies that glide effortlessly across beautiful synths and punchy rhythms. The lo-fi production melds everything together, yielding a pleasing high-pass warmth that gives the LP its Americana feel. I never saw this one coming after the first Cindy Lee album, but what an incredible surprise; this project had always been so experimental and ethereal, but to have that energy focused into an uplifting warmth has produced an album that teems with life, hope, and an overriding sense that everything will be alright. Best that those who can’t be bothered to find this online miss out, this LP feels like something you have to find for yourself and has created one of the strongest senses of community I’ve ever felt in the indieheads space.

Holy shit what a gem, thanks for recommending this. Immediately added to the list of actually amazing new discoveries on here. 2 hours long, never felt bored. One of the most compelling atmospheres I've ever heard an album create. To steal the thoughts of a comment on the Youtube video I listened to this on: This sounds like a radio broadcast from a parallel dimension. Five outta five.

Rating: 7/10

This album is TOO LONG but it's also REALLY GOOD and it reminds me of Twin Peaks

I've been getting into Bandcamp recently and buying albums for a small cost - better for lots of smaller bands get a better cut. This is lo-fi and very 60's influenced. It's really unsettling and dreamy in places and I like it.

Really cool lo-fi record and one of my personal highlights from 2024, from an artist I’d never previously heard of. I didn’t get around to this until the end of the year - it’s great when you finally get around to listening to a constantly-hyped underground album and it actually lives up to your expectations

Long but real nice

I tend to let the experience of listening to the whole album in one siting influence the score on here, and this one is just sooooo long... Of course, I resume full responsibility for not using mind-altering substances, knowing that this might have reduced my appreciation of the album.

Very dreamy indie-pop. For me, a double album of this is just a bit too much

Hypnagogic pop, psychedelic pop, indie rock, brill building, slacker rocknoise pop, lo-fi. Es muuuuy largo y todo el tiempo igual. Pero, bueno, agradable. Ni fu ni fa.

Clearly a lot of people really love this and I can see an appeal. On the other hand quite a lot of it sounds like it's being played through a metal trash can stuffed with lint. At better points, dreamy lounge music floating through some dim country bar off hours. Early in I thought I was likely to get very sick of it at length and to its credit that didn't really happen, but it did largely fade into the background of whatever I was doing. Interesting, but a triple album is a really aggressive way to introduce a band to a general population.

Found this on Bandcamp, like it to start with but it's a bit too long.

Odd production sound. Not bad, but truly a bit

I can greatly appreciate what is being done on this album. A colossal piece of lofi, nostalgic, dreamy music. It’s expansive and well curated. It’s also incredibly long. Actually, it’s been a week and the album is still playing. As interesting and enjoyable parts of this album are it lingers for a while and some of the lofi transitional instrumental parts drag on and could’ve probably knocked off 30-40 minutes of the album. I’d probably listen to it more if it was on streaming too to cut out some of the filler. 7.1/10

Weird and magical. Extensively so.

It's a nice sound but it's much too much to be a serious album proposition. It's every thought they ever had.

Not available on Apple Music. Found a playlist on Youtube/Youtube Music though. Was pretty long. Kind of shoe-gazy, which I find disinteresting. Decent background music while working, but was somewhat forgettable to me.

Not on spoofy :'-)

The quintessential of a great concept with the worst execution of all time. I don't know if I reached the end, since my player was configured to restart after the end, and I'm unsure if I can distinguish each song from the others.

Just not for me I think. 3/10

I managed an hour, but 2 hours would have killed me. Make it 40 minutes and this would have been a "fine, here's a 3" kinda record.

2 hours?? GTFO I'm absolutely of the mindset that you've got to keep an album at *least* close to an hour - tops - unless there's some unquestionable theme or motif. I don't think that's an unreasonable statement of short attention span, but an album is a document right? A statement from the artist/s at a point in time. (please don't ruin my analogy by referencing Infinite Jest or Ulysses, etc, i'm on a roll) Not to mention this came out last year. OH the music? It's fine...ish, to a point - sort of a Beach Boys + Animal Collective lofi experience with far worse mix/production; really really would have lent itself to a 40 minute set max. More than a bit too laconic. Honestly, after being annoyed at about 30 minutes I tried to just relax and let this wash over me as so many others have...which didn't work. Don't really love it at all. 5/10 2 stars. IMO: Belonged in the book? No.

Too long and not anything for me to compliment. Boring but not offensive I guess.

I don't care for the vocals/vocal style used here. I can't stand the whiny/moany/echoy sounds. The music itself was ok but not enough for me to rate this any higher.

No need for any album to be this long

No está

Not on Apple Music or Spotify which as you know means auto one star sorry!!!!!!

Unable to listen to this on Spotify

There should be a rule that albums that are only available on YouTube should be ineligible. Also, far, far too long. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Immediate bad mood.

I think my principle of starting off releases with extremely limited distribution with the lowest possible score is fairly well-established now, and this has to apply here because it is yet another album apparently only to be found on BandCamp. That it stretches out to over 2 hours is also antisocial, so it gets no additional points from that. At the time of writing, I'm approximately a fortnight into it, and I have no particular desire to keep going. The music on offer varies wildly between "This is moderately interesting" and "This is pretentious bilge". It could easily have stood to be trimmed, and this perhaps goes back to the first point of it only being available via bandcamp. If there'd been someone in the picture whose job it was to make it commercially viable as a release, vast swathes of the crud would have been chopped out, and that no doubt would have made it better. As it stands, there's nothing sufficient in this to make me think it's worth bothering with, and the piss-take distribution and duration make it fully worth a single, solitary star.