• 1.1. what we had
  • 1.2. hearts of iron
  • 1.3. handsome furs hate this city
  • 1.4. snakes on the ladder
  • 1.5. cannot get, started
  • 1.6. sing! captain
  • 1.7. dead + rural
  • 1.8. dumb animals
  • 1.9. the radio's hot sun
25. Mai 2007
Label: SUB POP
Genre: Indie

handsome furs

plague park

PLAGUE PARK

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The duo of Handsome Furs began as an idea in the winter of 2006, comprised of Vancouver residents Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and his fiancée, Alexei Perry. Dark and minimal while noisy and earnest, the point was to be as sparse and repetitive as possible with the help of little more than vocals, guitars, and a new drum machine. Through this, songs of earthbound captains, eggs made of gold and iron, and sleepless bodies were born. Boeckner's disenchanted vocals thinly resonate while cloaked in a frenzied undertone of fear and uncertainty, all punctuated by bare drum machine beats. Through the course of each track, a deep-seated sense of longing struggles with staunch realism as a restless disdain for both urban life and smaller towns collide. Handsome ... read more