The Vacant Lots new LP (Fuzz Club) / Alan Vega's proeges and New York underground heroes are back

New York City’s artistic skyline may have changed immeasurably since the last century, yet the minimalist post-punk/synth-pop duo, The Vacant Lots, vividly gouge into the city’s immortal outsider spirit and underground cultural tropes, set against a pulsating backdrop of modern apocalypse. Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen caught much attention from audiences and critics through their collaborations with Suicide's Alan Vega. Today Jared has joined Alan’s widow and longtime musical ally Liz Lamere in curating the Vega Vault of unreleased material, culminating in co-producing and mixing 2021’s lost album, ‘Mutator’.

And while Suicide's legacy is still recognisable in this new LP, 'Closure' is essentially a Pop flavored album. Laced 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, as well as the kind of modern disco and post-punk grooves that pillaged New York clubs in the 80s.