I’ve always been a small fan of Handsome furs. I’m probably a bigger fan of Dan Boeckner’s involvement in Wolf Parade, but this recent release Face Control by the Furs has me torn. Handsome Furs is a side project Boeckner started in 2006 with his wife Alexei Perry. Plague Park, the couple’s debut album, is a testament to the Ruttopuisto park in Helsinki that sits atop a mass grave of victims from the plague of 1710. Mourning aside, the album oddly always brought me that old nostalgic feeling, and most importantly the track “Dead+Rural” which is brilliant. It was one of those albums that I only got one song out of, although I want to go back and give it another shot. Please, if you have not heard “Dead+Rual”, listen to it.
Face Control is the next release by the Furs, now scheduled to drop in March due to complications with their cover of New Order’s “All We Want, Baby, is Everything” - which, by the way, is great. The album is now out circulating the blogs, check it out, then buy yourself a copy in March. The duo will be performing the 15 of March at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
Justin Cudmore: cudmore2@gmail.com
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