Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2009)

1. Silver Moons

2. Idiot Heart

3. Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!

4. Black Swan

5. Paper Lace

6. You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)

7. Nightingale / December Song

8. Dragon's Lair

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Wolf Parade - Live at CBC Radio 3 (Bootleg)

Wolf Parade - Live at CBC Radio 3 (2004)

1. Lousy Pictures
2. I'll Believe in Anything
3. Same Ghost Every Night
4. You are a Runner and I am My Father's Son
5. Shine a Light

Good stuff.

Sunset Rubdown - Snake's Got A Leg

Sunset Rubdown - Snake's Got A Leg (2005)

1. The Dust You Kick Up is Too Fine
2. Snake's Got A Leg
3. I'll Believe in Anything, You'll Believe in Anything
4. Hey You, Handsome Vulture
5. Hope You Don't Stoop to Dirty Words
6. Hope You Don't Stoop to Dirty Words II
7. Cecil's Bells
8. I Know the Weight of Your Throat
9. Sol's Song
10. Stadiums and Shrines
11. Snake's Got A Leg II
12. Portrait of A Shiny Metal Boy


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Swan Lake - Beast Moans

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Genre: Indie Rock

Similar Artists: Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Wolf Parade, Destroyer

I'm not exactly much of a fan of this album. I prefer Spencer Krug in Sunset Rubdown. I admit though that Spencer's parts here are brilliant. The style is so much like Sunset Rubdown's.

Swan Lake - Beast Moans (2006)

1. Widow's Walk
   
2. Nubile Days
   
3. City Calls
   
4. A Venue Called Rubella
   
5. All Fires
   
6. The Partisan But He's Got to Know
   
7. The Freedom
   
8. Petersburg, Liberty Theater, 1914
9. The Pollenated Girls
   
10. Bluebird
    
11. Pleasure Vessels
    
12. Are You Swimming in Her Pools
    
13. Shooting Rockets

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Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

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Genre: Indie Rock

Similar Artists: Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Handsome Furs

One of this year's best? Most definitely!


Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (2008)

1. Soldier's Grin
   
2. Call It a Ritual
   
3. Language City
   
4. Bang Your Drum
   
5. California Dreamer
   
6. The Grey Estates
   
7. Fine Young Cannibals
   
8. An Animal in Your Care
   
9. Kissing the Beehive

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Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming

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Genre: Indie Rock

Similar Artists: Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes

No words.


Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)

1. Stadiums and Shrines II
   
2. They Took a Vote and Said No
   
3. Us Ones in Between
   
4. I'm Sorry I Sang on Your Hands That Must Have Been in the Grave
   
5. Snake's Got a Leg III
   
6. The Empty Threats of Little Lord
   
7. Swimming
   
8. The Men Are Called Horsemen There
   
9. Q-Chord
   
10. Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings

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Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

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Genre: Indie Rock

Similar Artists: Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Handsome Furs

Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner are perhaps today's most popular duo in indie rock. Their combination of distinct musicianship and poignant themes and lyrics made Apologies to the Queen Mary one of 2005's finest.

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)

1. You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son
   
2. Modern World
   
3. Grounds for Divorce
   
4. We Built Another World
   
5. Fancy Claps
   
6. Same Ghost Every Night
   
7. Shine a Light
   
8. Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
   
9. I'll Believe in Anything
   
10. It's a Curse
    
11. Dinner Bells
    
12. This Heart's on Fire
    

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Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

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Genre: Indie Rock

Similar Artists: Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes

Sunset Rubdown needs no further introduction. This album is so clever.

Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (2007)

1. The Mending of the Gown
   
2. Magic vs. Midas
   
3. Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days
   
4. The Courtesan Has Sung
   
5. Winged/Wicked Things
   
6. Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns
   
7. Stallion
   
8. For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
   
9. The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life
   
10. Setting vs. Rising
    
11. Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
    
12. Child-Heart Losers

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Fifths of Seven - Spry from Bitter Anise Folds

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Genre: Instrumental, Folk, Folkloric Eastern European

Similar Artists: A Silver Mt. Zion, A Journey Down the Well

This album is worth your attention. You don't even need to know that the project involves Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug! (Or maybe you have to!)

Fifths of Seven - Spry from Bitter Anise Folds (2005)

1. Rosa Centifolia
   
2. Sweet Grace for Devious
   
3. Out from Behind the Rigid Bellows
   
4. Waiting
   
5. Coeur, Arteries and Veins
   
6. Echoes from a Wandered Path
   
7. For You Alone in the Smoldering City
   
8. Bless Our Wandering Dreamers

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