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“The diary of a Gallipoli digger that describes the historic campaign in vivid detail has sold for $24,000 in a Sydney auction.”

What’s Tonight To Eternity by Cindy Lee

The story of Cindy Lee — artistic avatar and musical persona of Patrick Flegel — is so provocative and fascinating that it often supplants consideration of the music. It also presents some weighty stylistic issues when you want to discuss it. Offstage, Flegel is Flegel. Smart, engaging, talented. Onstage, Cindy is Cindy. Beautiful, fragile, forceful. This record is neither studio nor stage; it exists outside of those spaces. We get the sounds (notably Flegel’s singularly tensile guitar and weirdly evocative production sensibility), shorn of the face, the wig, the gestures and the manifest immediacy of performance. The recordings fall somewhere between Flegel and Cindy. But this terrific new LP has her name on it, so we’ll use the corresponding feminine terms.