Sing! Captain
With all the blogger love for Spencer Krug over the past couple of years thanks to the (mostly deserved) hype over his Sunset Rubdown and Swan Lake projects, it was easy to forget about the other contributing member of the supremely enjoyable Wolf Parade - Dan Boeckner. Well, thanks to the just released debut of his side project Handsome Furs, he can lurk in the shadows no longer. Plague Park (Sub Pop) finds Boeckner teaming up with his fiancee, poet Alexei Perry, for nine engaging tunes that combine minimal electronic flourishes with the more straightforward (as if!) indie rock found in Boeckner's other project(s). It's a very rewarding listen that reminds us just how much he contributed to the best Wolf Parade songs. Check out two of my absolute favorite Boeckner penned tracks, one from Handsome Furs and the other a classic Wolf Parade jam.
Handsome Furs - "Sing! Captain" (taken from Plague Park)
Wolf Parade - "Same Ghost Every Night" (taken from Apologies To The Queen Mary)
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