Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
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Artist: Sunset RubdownEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Jagjaguwar
Soundtracks:
- Mending Of The Gown, The
- Magic Vs. Midas
- Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End Of Your Feral Days
- Courtesan Has Sung, The
- Winged Wicked Things
- Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns
- Stallion
- For The Pier (And Dead Shimmering)
- Taming Of The Hands That Came Back To Life, The
- Setting Vs. Rising
- Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
- Child-Heart Losers
Music reviews of Random Spirit Lover
Music Review: Overwhelming in the best possible way
Rating: 5 Stars
Sunset Rubdown has been the most difficult band for me to get into in recent times. I can listen to heavy metal, I can listen to noise, I can listen to metal, I can listen to Kanye (sometimes), but I could not figure out Sunset Rubdown for the longest time. When a friend handed me Random Spirit Lover, I gave it a cursory listen through once and didn't touch it again for almost a year. To say the least it's an intimidating album.
Looking back, what makes it so intimidating is its melding of pop with experimentation. Krug, who is among the best, if not the best, musicians/song-writers of this generation gets terribly strange on this album while managing to stay within the limits of pop music. At first, the result is an intimidating mishmash. You end up not knowing where to start, when to end (either right now or never), if you like the music. But, in the end, it becomes intelligible and then you see the Canadian's true genius.
He has taken pop music to a new level. Where other recent pop innovators (i.e. - Animal Collective) have taken pop music and mixed it with noise, added strange samples, Krug is entirely within the realm of pop music. Using just the normal pop/rock setup (guitars, vocals, drums, keyboard), Sunset Rubdown has managed to create something unsettling yet truly grand.
Description of Random Spirit Lover
Their third full-length features twelve songs that bleed in and out of each other, mixing portents with theatrics, confusions with conversions. "Beyond writing catchy tunes and packing them with whispers, mallets, harpsichord, and patches of cheapskate drum machines, [Spencer Krug's] an intriguing presence. Instead of bubbling along at one level, he roller coasters and raves, mixing nonsense with sharp observations and sadness with puns" - Pitchfork. "Shut Up I Am Dreaming" on Absolutely Kosher SoundScanned over 15,000 copies and earned Pitchfork's "Best New Music" tag.While Spencer Krug's unique vocals, imagery, and wibble-wobble song structure remain intact, Random Spirit Lover showcases great growth for both he and his band as musicians. Spencer's voice and unique instrumental choices may scare some away, but with repeat listens, you truly see numerous layers to these new songs. The album begins with the same sound you may have come to expect from Sunset Rubdown on Shut Up I am Dreaming and also from Spencer while performing with Wolf Parade. Songs like "The Mending of the Gown" and "Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days" feature the same frantic, yelping and infectious lyrics that have become Krug trademarks. The album takes a turn at "Winged/Wicked Things" and slowly grows and evolves into a more refined yet experimental version of a band that has obviously started to discover their identity. The latter half of the album, beginning with "The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life," all the way till the last second of "Child-Heart Losers," features the band's best music to date and also the signs of a band that have become their own entity, far removed from Wolf Parade or Frog Eyes. --Aaron Swetnam
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