At some point it just won't make sense to refer to Sunset Rubdown as a Wolf Parade side-project -- especially when you consider Spencer Krug's Rubdown moniker is responsible for three LPs to the lupine Parade's lonely (albeit amazing) one. Granted, Sunset's first was more of a Spencer solo thing, but this fall the Rubdown releases Random Spirit Lover, just over a year after putting out one of Stereogum's favorite releases of '06, Shut Up I Am Dreaming. And the first taste? Epic, arpeggiated, with tinkling glockenspiels, a proggy jig, Spencer's madcap, cackling melodicism, and an outro that will melt every club it sees this fall. In two words: loves it. In a few more: Just may be that Spencer Krug can do no wrong.
Sunset Rubdown - Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End Of Your Feral Days" (MP3)
Random Spirit Lover is out 10/9 on Jagjaguwar. Rubdown on the road:
10/07 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
10/08 - Brooklyn, NY @Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/09 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
10/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
10/11 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
10/12 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
10/13 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
10/15 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
10/16 - Austin, TX @ Emo?s
10/18 - Tuscon, AZ @ Solar Culture Gallery
10/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
10/21 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
10/23 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
10/24-Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe
10/25 - Vancouver, BC @ Plaza Club
10/26 - Victoria, BC @ Logans
10/28 - Calgary, Alberta @ Broken City
[Pic from Sunset Rubdown's gig at Mercury Lounge 5/22/06 -- one of our favorite live shows of 2006]
