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SPENCER KRUG (WOLF PARADE) – ” Fading Graffiti “

Posted: April 2, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug Announces Debut Album Under His Own Name

Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug has announced new solo album Fading Graffiti which will be out April 16th via his own helpfully named label, Pronounced Kroog. His first album released under his own name, it takes songs that originated as piano ballads on Krug’s Patreon in 2019 and recontextualizes them as indie rock. After abandoning his Moonface moniker and successfully launching his Patreon subscription, Wolf Parade member Spencer Krug has announced his first album under his own name. Fading Graffiti is due on April 16th as the first release on the artist’s own label.

The album is composed of 10 full-band versions of songs that initially debuted on Krug’s Patreon account throughout 2019 as solo piano compositions. Krug and his new band recorded the songs at the tail-end of that year at the Noise Floor Recording Studio on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. According to the album’s pre-order page, the Patreon was “used to help fund the creation of the album.”

As heard on the newly released title track, the new version swaps out the original’s neoclassical slow burn for twanging rock fare augmented by slide guitar and synths. An accompanying lyric video by aitso draws out the song’s murmuring psychedelia by layering multiple videos of Krug dancing and singing along to the track.

Though this is Krug’s first album under his own name, it’s hardly his first solo album — Sunset Rubdown debuted in 2005 as Krug’s solo vehicle before becoming a full band, which led to the creation of Krug’s Moonface moniker in 2009. His final album as Moonface was 2018’s “This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet”. Wolf Parade released “Thin Mind” in early 2020.

First single from the album by the same name Listen to “Fading Graffiti” coming April 16th.

MOONFACE – ” City Wrecker “

Posted: December 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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The more you listen to this collection of songs, the more it develops. Upon first listen, it is almost overwhelming and confusing in how it builds and expands into this beautiful mountain of sophisticated agony via magical melodies, nurtured lyrics. Yet it is clear that there is a strong sense of confidence in how Moonface is continuing to develop as an artist and songwriter Moonface began as Krug alone and eventually expanded to an entire band. After Moonface’s 2012  album With Siinai: “Heartbreaking Bravery” which, as advertised, was made with the Finnish band Siinai, the project was scaled back for 2013’s lonesome, voice-and-piano album “Julia With Blue Jeans On“. Krug’s follow-up to “Julia” is the five-song EP “City Wrecker”, and it operates along the same compositional lines as its immediate predecessor. It was also, like “Julia”, written and recorded in his temporarily adopted home of Helsinki, and it reflects that same sense of frigid displacement.

MOONFACE – ” Everyone Is Noah “

Posted: December 19, 2014 in MUSIC
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Since January 2010, Spencer Krug has used Moonface as a venue for home-recorded instrumental and conceptual experimentation, expanding the ideas he developed collaboratively with Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. Releases under this moniker have come quickly, each distinct from the other. The “Dreamland” EP and “Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped” were conceptual excursions merging instrumental and thematic fixations. After moving from Montreal to Helsinki, Krug teamed up with the Finnish band Siinai to create a lush rock record–2012’s “Heartbreaking Bravery”–driven by the dark despair of a breakup. Staying in Helsinki, Krug set off on yet another creative departure, driven by a rediscovery of love and a reconsideration of the Moonface persona he’d created for himself. The quietly stunning “Julia with Blue Jeans On” is the fourth Moonface release, bringing a degree of intimacy and self-reflection unlike anything Krug has produced to date.