Is easily the best album I've heard all year...easily. It's packed full of long, mesmerizing, chill enducing, and beautiful Spencer Krug creations. Maybe I'll get tired of it after obsessing about it, but god damn is this album epic! Sorry Feist, sorry LCD Soundsystem, you've got some stiff competition!Sunset Rubdown-Random Spirit Lover: full album review sometime before next friday, promise. M...
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At first I wasn't too keen to Sunset Rubdown, sure i loved Wolf Parade's latest release (Sunset Rubdown is Spencer Krug, keyboardist for Wolf Parade's other band), but i've been disappointed with Sunset Rubdown before. However a freind and band mate finaly decided it was time to prove me wrong, and he did just that by burning me a copy of the album and sitting in my room waiting for me to ac...
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Sunset Rubdown is the other band of Wolf Parade member Spencer Krug. While Sunset Rubdown may not have the instant accessibility of Wolf Parade, the band certainly points to the talent that Krug certainly possesses.In my opinion Shut Up I Am Dreaming is a remarkable achievement for Krug and his bandmates. BUT what i'm interested is Krug has taken himself into elite songwriter territory which i ...
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The fourth Sunset Rubdown LP entitled Dragonslayer will be with us this summer courtesy of Jagjaguwar.Track list after the jumpThe track list is:1. Silver Moons2. Idiot Heart3. Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!4. Black Swan5. Paper Lace6. You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)7. Nightingale / December Song8. Dragon’s LairThis makes it [...]
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Wit in music. Not in lyrics, which is easy enough - but in the way one chord leads to another, or a melody appears, or pauses are used. It's a rare phenomenon: one found in the work of classical composers such as Handel and Haydn, say. A (rather more modern) witty album, in my opinion, is Weezer's _Pinkerton_ (leagues better than anything else by the band) - and Sunset Rubdown's _Random Spirit ...
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You know where in the first few seasons of the Gilmour Girls Rory and whats his name are constantly in a fight?Well, James and I are a bit like that - not that we mean to. I mean, fundamentally, we are best friends. It is just that try as we might, we can't spend more than 24 hours in each others company.Anyway, sometimes, when we don't fight about: a) classifying music (yesterday I told him I ...
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With it's minute long percussion solo and melody that wouldn't be out of place on a pirate ship, the newest from Spencer Krug and the gang sounds like what you might expect from an album called Dragonslayer. Take that how you want to. Dragonslayer is out June 23rd. I put up a zshare and a box.net link.Sunset Rubdown - Nightinggale/December Song | Box.netTracklist:01 "Silver Moons"02 "Idiot Hear...
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I haven't been able to listen to anything except Random Spirit Lover these past few days. The music is less accessible than that of Wolf Parade, more unattainable and open to interpretation, and I think that allure is part of the reason I've grown so attached. The songs are stories. Shut Up I Am Dreaming spun tales of horses, snakes, dreams, kids who need rides... Random Spirit Lover is a bit d...
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Saturday I headed up I-35 with my pal jake and jake's pal heath to see Sunset Rubdown in Denton. I had not heard them before that day, and to be quite honest, I only tagged along for the free ride up so i could see a friend. I am glad i went though, their set was really great and I am now proud to say I am a fan. Plus, that little lady who plays all the random stuff, is adorable and has sple...
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On June 23rd Spencer Krug and his band Sunset Rubdown will release their third full length entitled Dragonslayer via Jagjaguwar. This band has steadily been building in sound over the past few years and what was once a small project of Krug has now turned into a 5 piece band with this new album. With [...]
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I'm not sure but this probably is the first Sunset Rubdown music video I have encountered. Their songs are good but I was hoping the video to be better. This song on the other hand is rocket science. 4 / 5 stars!(mp3) Sunset Rubdown - Black SwanBuy their album at Amazon.
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Here is a track from the upcoming Sunset Rubdown record "Random Spirit Lover"
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Cataract Camp (I hope I have the name right): Alright. 14 years ago I probably would've been really into them. Parts of songs were good but overall they're just not a style I listen to much these days. Seemed to abuse their instruments more than actually play them.Beaver: Couldn't hear enough to form an opinion. Totally wrong venue...acoustic guitar and a soft voice, and despite pleas fro...
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First of all, he’s ok, so you’ll still probably get to see some Dragonslayer live in the near future...just breathe. Holy shit though! As you can see from the electro-current shaped mark, he was tagged in the back and the information we know now comes from the folks at his label (Jagjaguwar) and the horse’s mouth. Read on…A few weeks ago SUNSET RUBDOWN’s Marc Nicol, aka The Nuc, was enj
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Jude Clarke review the fourth album from the critically acclaimed Spencer Krug side-project, and discovers an album with perhaps more minuses than pluses.
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