Beast Moans
Jagjaguwar
2006
Rating: 7 herb gardens out of 10
So it has become blatantly obvious that Dan Bejar is the King Midas of the rock scene – everything he touches turns to gold. His signature project Destroyer consistently makes amazing albums; he also plays a strong role in the New Pornographers – a “super group” of Canadian rock stars that have set the independent charts on fire over the last few years. And as if that weren’t enough, now Bejar has given us a second entirely different “super group” of Canadian rockers called Swan Lake. The trio features him collaborating with Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade and Casey Mercer of Frog Eyes…and it sounds exactly like you would expect with those three mad geniuses working together. “Beast Moans” is like an organized mess, a schizophrenic tour through the minds of three fantastic songwriters who somehow pack nearly every song with all of the essential elements that makes Destroyer, Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes so great… Bowie-esque baroque pop meets psychedelic experimentation meets…I dunno how to even quantify it all. It’s just damn good, and further proof that there is something in the water in Canada for all of these great bands to just keep reproducing like rabbits.
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