There’s rap in my rock!
The new Handsome Furs album, Face Control, gets daily burn in the Camry. I highly recommend it, and, on a side note, what a sexy couple.
If you peeped their debut, Plague Park, you know the Furs’ deal: It’s Dan Boeckner’s project with his wife, Alexei Perry. Boeckner’s “day job” is holding down the Springsteen half of crucial Boss/Bowie double dragon Wolf Parade, and, as a Fur, he still does fist-pump wounded-warrior rock. But instead of the Parade’s wine-drunk chord hog Spencer Krug for a foil, he’s up against chilly beatz.
Plague Park came off like an experiment to me. What I took from it was, “Damn, it’s hard to fuck up a Boeckner song. These things are super duty tuff work.” Face Control is also an experiment, but where Plague Park was scuzzy and tinny—on purpose, no doubt, but messy—Face Control is a guided missile. It hits harder than most hiphop. For 2009, easily the best use of an 808 in a rock record.
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D.Manier 3 years, 2 months ago
I agree. Shit’s kind of nice.
We$ 3 years, 2 months ago
I love the pic and hella love their video..
LB 3 years, 2 months ago
Thanks for the heads up on this interview. His guitar sounds much more awesome when live. I’m really diggin’ Face Control.
You kinda mentioned this, but I was just thinking the other day how Boeckner is such an elemental songwriter: fire (though more in the figurative internal sense), earth and water are omnipresent in all his work. He’s easily one of my favorite musicians out there.
LB 3 years, 1 month ago
Yeah, you’re probably right, but I also think Face Control succeeds in large part because Alexei has really learned her way around the MicroKorg. Some of her synth/drum machine work is fantastically ornate, especially when compared to Plague Park.
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