lone wolf.

sunset rubdown: shut up i'm dreaming
you know, i was already smitten with wolf parade’s better half, spencer krug, but then the quirky little mastermind went ahead and released the first full-length album from his lo-fi side project, sunset rubdown, and now i am sure to adore him forever. shut up i’m dreaming is a strange gem, which calls to mind a bunch of similar diamond-in-the-rough type bands like the unicorns and neutral milk hotel. oh yeah, and wolf parade.

except one can imagine that these are the sort of oddball songs that even the offbeat wolf parade wouldn’t dare indulge in. refusing to fit together like chapters in a book, each song stands on its own like a mini-novella, complete with it’s own set of endearing lyrics told to the tune of a zillion instruments (including many appearances by our forgotten friend, the triangle!). even with several tracks stretching over seven minutes long, the songs are never boring, as they are all backed with krug’s signature ultra-frantic, ultra-manic, urgency.