You may know Spencer Krug as one of the two vocalists from Wolf Parade... or THE vocalist from Sunset Rubdown.... or one of the three vocalists from Canadian supergroup Swan Lake.... Or maybe not at all. Whatever. His newest and possibly least accesible project, Moonface, just dropped their inaugaral release. You're not really looking for wild commercial success when you release a one track, 20-minute EP under your fourth musical moniker and call it Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums. Shit-drums? Yes, of course, i played those in high school marching band! And you're really not looking for commercial success when said EP contains one song containing only the sounds of your voice, the marimbas, and some admittedly shitty sounding drums. Then again... his tits do look pretty great on the cover, so maybe.
Oh, did i mention this record is fucking great? Cause it is. Krug brings these three elements together with his usual aplomb, despite they're unusual co-existence. He obviously beefed up on his marimba skills before the recording and manages an organic sound that evokes Kieran Hebden's Four Tet compositions. And the usual drama of Krug's voice and vocal delivery is as compelling as ever in this constrained format. You can find out more about the project and download the EP for a suggested donation over at their Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian site, but, please, someone give that man a million dollars, for god's sake, he showed us his tits.
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