The Lysistrata Veil (Clear) vinyl presents the French alt-rock trio’s third album on a clear pressing from Vicious Circle, a record produced by Ben Greenberg with enough reach and momentum to find listeners well outside the band’s existing following without losing what made that following in the first place.
Lysistrata Veil (Clear) Vinyl: The Third Album and What It Does
Lysistrata have built their catalog deliberately across three albums, and Veil represents the most assured step forward in that progression. The Ben Greenberg production credit carries genuine weight here. Greenberg has worked with Metz, DIIV, and Beach Fossils: bands that operate at different points on the spectrum of guitar-driven music but share a commitment to sound that is genuinely captured rather than assembled after the fact in post-production. Greenberg understands how to record a band playing together in a room, and Veil reflects that understanding throughout. The trio format serves the material well. Three pieces mean that each instrument has genuine presence and weight in the mix, and Veil takes advantage of that throughout its running time. The album was written, by the band’s own description, to dance to, sing along with, scream to, and experience emotions fully with. That’s a broad mandate. Lysistrata delivers on it by writing songs that reward multiple kinds of engagement and don’t settle for a single register. The range of what the record asks from the listener across its tracks is one of its genuine strengths.
The Clear Vinyl Pressing
Vicious Circle pressed Veil on clear vinyl, and the label’s output consistently rewards the physical format and the attention that physical format commands. Clear pressings of alt-rock records at this level of production quality are the collector’s choice when they’re available. Veil is designed to find a wider audience, but it doesn’t compromise what made Lysistrata interesting in the first place to get there. The Greenberg production gives it both the sonic integrity and the live energy that makes the transition to vinyl feel natural and right. If you follow any of the bands Greenberg has worked with, this record belongs in the same conversation and in the same collection.
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