Random Spirit Lover

by Sunset Rubdown

Overview

Vocalist/keyboardist/mad pop scientist Spencer Krug made the jump from California (Absolutely Kosher) to the Midwest (Indiana-based Jagjaguwar) for 2007's Random Spirit Lover, a cacophonous slab of 12 tracks that bleed into each other like a dismembered, dystopian version of the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin. The occasional Frog Eyes and full-time Wolf Parade member's third foray into the solo world feels a lot less like a foray and more like a firm commitment. Like Frog Eyes, Krug weaves fractured, complex, cacophonous pop songs glued together by a distinct love for melody, but where Frog Eyes wants to violate every part of your body, Sunset Rubdown wants you to stick around and watch the carnage, not be a part of it. Random Spirit Lover bristles with the same manic energy and odd beauty that made 2006's Shut Up I Am Dreaming so rich. Part lo-fi bedroom project and part hi-fi tribute to the excesses of '70s art rock, standout rockers like "Mending of the Gown," "Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days," and "Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life" never stick around long enough to grow tiresome, as Krug keeps things economical. Fans of "Blackberry Way"-era Move, Berlin-era Bowie, late-period Of Montreal, and the Danielson Famile will eat this up like the candy it is. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	05/10/2024
Label:	Jagjaguwar
UPC:	0656605211336
Rank:	42169

Tracks

Disc 1

1. The Mending of the Gown
2. Magic Vs. Midas
3. Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your feral Days
4. The Courtesan Has Sung
5. Winged/Wicked Things
6. Colt Stands Up/Grows Horns

Disc 2

7. Stallion
8. For the Pier (And Dead Shimmering)
9. The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life
10. Setting Vs. Rising
11. Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
12. Child-Heart Losers

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sunset Rubdown   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Michael Doerksen   Group Member
Spencer Krug   Group Member
Camilla Wynne Ingr   Group Member
Jace Lasek   Associate Engineer
Jenny Lee Craig   Design,Layout Design
Mike Doerkson   Group Member
Jordan Robson-Cramer   Group Member
Dave Smith   Associate Engineer