Handsome Furs

Add Date: March 3

Artist: Handsome Furs

Album: Face Control

Label: Sub Pop

Genre: Rock

Comments: If you like Wolf Parade or Sunset Rubdown you really ought to give husband and wife duo Handsome Furs a listen.

"The juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats courtesy of Alexei Perry, with the jagged, dissonant and frail, broken or breaking guitars of Dan Boekner (of Wolf Parade) portray what it is to be a human being at the bottom of hte 21st century.... The songs on Face Control often cast us as the young lovers in the shadow of the system, plotting their escape, revelling in their freedom as the shackles tighten around them. In the past, freedom may have meant jumping a barbed wire fence, or crossinga treacherous ocean or burning desert. On Face Control Handsome Furs shos us that in out modern age escaping these constraints has simultaneously become easier and more complicated. While it once meant hanging on, it now means letting go, and drifting off, refusing to participate in the structure that shapes and dominates so many lives, eschewing traditional values, opting instead to make up their own ways." -SubPop

But don't take a record label's word for it (even if it is SubPop)!

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