You could take Dan Boeckner for granted. In fact, you probably are taking Dan Boeckner for granted. Over the last two decades, most of us first got to know Boeckner as one of Wolf Parade's primary songwriters, then as the leader of Handsome Furs, then as Britt Daniel's partner-in-crime for Divine Fits, and finally as the frontman of Operators. In that time, a year has rarely passed without something new from one of those various endeavors. And it’s almost all consistently great, while still rarely nudging forward to interact with whatever indie conversation is happening at the moment. He’s off to the side, churning out albums with multiple projects back to back. Workmanlike even in his artier moments, you can always rely on him to deliver a collection of masterful hooks. He’s always there -- often literally, with how much he’s committed to slugging it out on the road, and how cognizant he is of playing places most bands ignore. Artists like that, the ones you can count on time and time again without thinking about it, they don’t always get their due.