Recorded in a barn-turned-studio in rural Ontario- the seven songs that make up Viet Cong were born largely on the road when Flegel and bandmates Mike Wallace Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen embarked on a 50-date tour that stretched virtually every limit imaginable. Close quarters hastened their exhaustion but also honed them as a group. You can designate records as seasonal and you can feel Viet Cong's bleakness and declare it wintry. But the only way you get a frost is when there's something warmer to freeze up. So yes Viet Cong is a winter album but only until it is a spring record then a summer scorcher then an autumn burner then it ices over again.