Swan Lake
Friday, November 24, 2006
Post-Thanksgiving cubicle dwellers blues.
Swan Lake - Beast MoansRIYL Destroyer, Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade, Ethereal Dream-Pop
I shouldn't like this album. By rights it's too dreamy, too dramatic, too over the top for my tastes. Yet somehow it's just right. I suppose this could be attributed to the fact that Swan Lake is a goobery indie "supergroup" comprised of members of The New Pornographers, Destroyer, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown and Frog Eyes, and therefore possesses a lineup to create music that's simply irrefutably good.
Were I the type to eat turkey then the wonderfully aptly named Beast Moans would be the perfect tryptophan come-down. Its insane layering, its blissed out production, its staccato'ed out pseudo western overtones... you couldn't ask for a better soundtrack for the post-glutton malaise. Read more about Swan Lake on Wikipedia.
http://jagjaguwar.com/swanlakeband/
posted by josefek @ 12:11 PM,
