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April 19, 2005
Evolution of Whimsy
Sunset Rubdown - I'll Believe in Anything, You'll Believe in Anything
Let the Wolf Parade obsession continue! Sunset Rubdown is the solo project of Spencer Krug, keyboardist/co-lead singer + songwriter (along with Dan Boeckner) of Montreal's talentastic Wolf Parade. Sunset Rubdown has an album coming out on June 14th on Global Symphonic Records (Atlas Strategic's (Dan's old band) label), entitled "Snake's Got A Leg". [Spencer is also involved with a band called Fifths of Seven, along with Beckie Foon from Silver Mt. Zion and Rachel Levine- however, there is almost no information about Fifths of Seven outside of their French record label, and unfortunately, it costs like $900 to buy the CD and get it shipped to the U.S. Does anyone else know anything about this album? It sounds like it'd be good.]
Now, for those of you who follow Wolf Parade and have anxiously snapped up every available recording (the CBC sessions in particular), then you'll recognize this song. It's not really clear whether "I'll Believe in Anything, You'll Believe in Anything" will emerge on Wolf Parade's Sub Pop debut or if Spencer just decided to play it with a full-band arrangement or what. That's none of my business, really, so let me just talk about the song:
The beginning is abrasively beautiful- a recursive function programmed into a distorted Simon pad- then Spencer sets off the kick drum, spaced out into counterintuitive intervals, very off-balance. "Give me your eyes/I need sunshine", the first lyrics that he sings- Spencer's voice exhibits his emotions readily (this man has a voice that is rife with tiny vesicles of pity, sadness, grief, exuberance, and passion). The best line in this song, in my opinion: "and I could give you ideologies/I could take away your shaky knees/and put it all up into the trees/and into the sea/and away from here". It sets up the end of this song, which sounds like a waterfall (full of frustration, desperate optimism, and romantic inertia). I cannot wait to hear the rest of this album.
Anyway, if you're aching for some Wolf Parade, Cheap Thrills still has the second EP (six songs- three w/Dan singing, three with Spencer) in stock (for only $8, which, believe me, is a total steal). Also, Insound has a great interview with Arlen Thompson (Wolf Parade's drummer) in their Spring 2005 catalog, which I think comes free with any order- check it out if you get the chance.
Posted by matt at April 19, 2005 08:00 AM
Comments
It's true, I am Wolf Parade's number one fan, I don't know whom the other fellow mentioned is, though.
Posted by: Jay Watts III at April 19, 2005 01:35 PM
Jay, that's awesome. BTW, I've been reading the Pop Montreal site, and you all are doing a wonderful job with that. I need to put up a link to that actually....
Posted by: Kevin at April 19, 2005 01:50 PM