Sunset Rubdown
Random Spirit Lover
Jagjaguwar
2007
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
It's pretty obvious that Spencer Krug doesn't like idle time...watching TV, goofing off with friends, hanging out in coffee shop, whatever. It's just not possible, because if he ain't writing/playing/recording/touring with Wolf Parade, or helping out with Frog Eyes, he's making even more new awesome music with his solo gig Sunset Rubdown. This is his third release under this moniker in the past three years; and while Sunset Rubdown was meant as an outlet for his more “adventurous” songs, I honestly couldn't tell you what the difference is between a Sunset Rubdown track and a Wolf Parade one most of the time. If anything, the songs might be a little mellower on average, but not profoundly so. All of his music continues to mine a strange world where folk psych has been married to glam rock...lots of instruments and layers to the music, often a sea of chaotic noise with islands of pop brilliance. “Random Spirit Lover” might actually be my favorite of all of his solo works, and nearly as good as the Wolf Parade modern masterpiece “Apologies to the Queen Mary”, and that is no short praise in my book.
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