Live: Sunset Rubdown at CrawDaddy

Sunset Rubdown will be visiting Ireland north and south as part of their upcoming European Tour. They'll be playing Spring & Airbrake in Belfast on September 11th, and CrawDaddy in Dublin on the 12th.

Download:
Sunset Rubdown - 'Idiot Heart'

Watch 'Stadiums and Shrines' live:

Stream: Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

As you may remember, I've told you about Sunset Rubdown's Spencer Krug before. Not only does he have a great name, but he's in three fantastic bands. One of them is Sunset Rubdown, the second is Wolf Parade, and the other is Dan Bejar sideproject Swan Lake. You may know him from Destroyer, or else the excellent New Pornographers. You may have heard of them. If you haven't, you should have your tongue tested. Cause you obviously have no taste. Bazing. I saw that on an MTV show the other day and knew I had to use it. What a put-down!

Sunset Rubdown's new album Dragonslayer is out next week, but for now it can be streamed in full on NPR.

Stream here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105103772

Album News: Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

Sunset Rubdown are to release new album Dragonslayer on June 23rd (22nd in UK, so 19th in Ireland I'd presume). You can pre-order the album now, and also have a snake peak at it by downloading 'Idiot Heart'. You may know Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade, and in case you didn't know, Sunset Rubdown are his other band.

Tracklist:
1. "Silver Moons" 4:45
2. "Idiot Heart" 6:09
3. "Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh" 5:23
4. "Black Swan" 6:54
5. "Paper Lace" 3:48
6. "You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)" 5:43
7. "Nightingale / December Song" 5:34
8. "Dragon's Lair" 10:28


Download:
Sunset Rubdown - 'Idiot Heart'

Preorder:
http://www.scdistribution.com

More info:
http://www.sunsetrubdown.net/

Album News: Swan Lake - Enemy Mine

Swan Lake is not the ballet troupe, instead it's a troupe made up of Dan Bejar of Destroyer, Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown/Wolf Parade and Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach. In other words, a band worth checking out. Their last record, Beast Moans, wasn't as brilliant as a Destroyer, New Pornos, or Wolf Parade record, but a few tracks were decent enough to show that this one, Enemy Mine, could be amazing.

According to the press release:
"While their debut album was a beautifully-weaved mash-up of their disparate song-writing styles, often with layer upon layer of various melodies and stylistics thrown into a collaborative cauldron to magical, and at times discordant effect, their second album "Enemy Mine" reflects a more stripped-down, more deliberate approach to collaboration. It's as if they really tried to just make nice songs together. To quote Krug, "There's architecture here." Not that the lyric is about collaboration--it fits nicely though."

I hope to get my hands on an mp3 soon.

Tracklist:
Spanish Gold, 2044
Paper Lace
Heartswarm
Settle On Your Skin
Ballad Of A Swan Lake, Or, Daniel's Song
Peace
Spider
A Hand At Dusk
Warlock Psychologist

More info:
http://www.myspace.com/swanlaketheband