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Sunset Rubdown — Dragonslayer

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 25, 2009 3:12 pm
Sunset Rubdown's last disc, 2007's Random Spirit Lover, was an adventurous and polished opus, but its songs — which continually blended into one another — suffered from a lack of individuality. The album went by in a blur. Spencer Krug and company correct that flaw on Dragonslayer, and return to the song-by-song format that gave birth to gems...
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Sunset Rubdown's Thanksgiving Treat

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) October 14, 2008 1:36 pm
While standing in an oddly half-empty Lee's Palace at 10:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Monday, I briefly toyed with the notion of creating a list of things to be thankful for in relation to Sunset Rubdown. Some of these things would be vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Spencer Krug's extremely esoteric but wildly entertaining and highly literate...
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Sunset Rubdown — Random Spirit Lover

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) October 2, 2007 2:00 pm
Where do you start with Spencer Krug? Known for his distinctively haunting vocal delivery and a propensity for musical experimentation, the Wolf Parade keyboardist and singer/songwriter is a bit of a wild card. Though he toned down the lo-fi minimalism that defined the early Sunset bedroom recordings for last year's propulsive Shut Up I Am...
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Sunset Rubdown — Shut Up I Am Dreaming

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) December 19, 2006 1:00 pm
Spencer Krug is a man of many projects, but it's a fair bet Sunset Rubdown is his favourite. While he remains appropriately leashed in Wolf Parade and isn't the focal point of Swan Lake, Krug lets loose on Shut Up I Am Dreaming, Sunset Rubdown's sophomore and full-band debut. Throughout, it feels like you're getting a looking glass view directly...
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Sunset Rubdown Try To Escape Shadow Of The Wolf

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) July 28, 2006 1:00 pm
Midway through Sunset Rubdown's Toronto debut, Spencer Krug paused with a guitar in hand and addressed a heckler who was yelling out for Wolf Parade songs. "Only one person on stage is in another band," he said coldly in an effort to support his Sunset Rubdown mates. That was the last time anybody mentioned the elephant in the room...
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Sunset Rubdown — Snake's Got A Leg

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) July 19, 2005 2:43 pm
Not content to merely be in one of Canada's best new bands, Wolf Parade, Spencer Krug unveils his one-man sideshow, Sunset Rubdown. This keyboard opus is absolutely manic, which is good or bad depending on your feelings toward spaz rock. It's very lo-fi, giving it the feel of an old Guided By Voices record sung by David Bowie. "Hey You...
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Sunset Rubdown Are Totally Poopy

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By CHARTattack Staff June 3, 2010 2:09 pm
If idle hands are the Devil's tools, then offhand comments are to music writers what idle hands are to the Devil. And that means when Dragonslayer is playing on the office stereo and someone goes, "Sunset Rubdown, more like Sunset Turddown" the eventual result is this: Sunset Turddown Sunset Turd Sunset Poop Patrol Sunset Poop-In-...
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Sunset Rubdown Inspired Johnny Depp's Alice In Wonderland Mad Hatter

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 26, 2010 12:33 pm
Johnny Depp's inspiration for Jack Sparrow in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series came from Keith Richards, and he's drawn on music again for his depiction of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's upcoming Alice In Wonderland. Depp told CBS News' Early Show the music of Montreal's Sunset Rubdown influenced his interpretation of the character. "I...
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Sunset Rubdown — "Dragon's Lair"

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By CHARTattack Staff February 25, 2010 12:55 pm
Sunset Rubdown's video for Dragonslayer's "Dragon's Lair" might as well be a short film, considering it's nearly 11 minutes. No, there isn't a dragon, but there is a child who thinks she can take on evil witches and who's eventually rescued from a forest by a nice guy. Sunset Rubdown are on hold at the moment while Wolf Parade record a...
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Spencer Krug's Moonface Solo EP Available For Free Download

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 16, 2009 5:08 pm
Even Amazon is capable of leaking albums these days. So Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown and Swan Lake member Spencer Krug has pre-empted the leak of his solo EP under the Moonface moniker by making it available for free download. Dreamland EP: Marimba And Shit-Drums is not in stores until Jan. 26, but Krug put it on the internet on Wednesday (Dec. 16...
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Spencer Krug Is Moonface

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 23, 2009 11:33 am
Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown and Swan Lake member Spencer Krug will release a solo EP as Moonface on Jan. 29 through Jagjaguwar. The Dreamland EP: Marimba And Shit-Drums will be available digitally and on one-sided 12-inch vinyl. It will also contain a "dream journal," which is where Krug reportedly got all the ideas for the songs. No...
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Sunset Rubdown — "Black Swan"

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By CHARTattack Staff September 10, 2009 10:44 am
Sunset Rubdown's video for Dragonslayer's "Black Swan" is full of Rorschach test images, animated fields of grass, flaming diamonds and skeletons dancing and making stabbing motions. Fittingly, it's creepy and trippy at once.
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Sunset Rubdown Bassist Struck By Lightning

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 3, 2009 10:44 am
If you were lying by a lake in the early evening, enjoying the cool breeze and summer weather, you'd probably never expect to be struck by lightning. But that's what happened to Sunset Rubdown bassist Marc "The Nuc" Nicol. A news post on Sunset Rubdown's label Jagjaguwar's website says Nicol was felt "a cascade of electrical...
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Sunset Rubdown Chart Champs Again For Third Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 21, 2009 12:53 pm
This column has mentioned the cyclical nature of the the campus charts many times. Every year during particular periods, the charts follow predictable general trends. Autumn is a period of the most chart contributers, followed by early spring. Christmas and the middle of the summer are the slowest time for chart contribution. Some stations...
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Sunset Rubdown Lasts Another Day At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 14, 2009 12:43 pm
For the first time in many a year, the chart stagnation has arrived before its weather kin. Normally, the dog days of mid-July correspond with fewer chart contributions leading to the top of the charts remaining unchanged for weeks at a time. This year, folks in Toronto have been blessed with below average temperatures. Usually, we complain...
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Sunset Rubdown Slays All To Reach #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 7, 2009 1:38 pm
With a new month, there's a new #1 album on the chart. After several weeks of predictions that a certain "Kool Thing" quartet would take over top spot on the top 50 chart, it's a west coast supergroup of sorts that grabs the top honours for the week. Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer jumps up four spots to land at #1 in its third week on...
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Grizzly Bear Repeats At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 23, 2009 1:45 pm
It's not unusual for Canadian bands to have dominate #1 albums on this top 50 chart, given the growth in the homegrown scene since the early '90s and the desire for campus radio stations to meet their Canadian content targets of between 33 to 40 per cent. Less common are examples of "import" bands (like Animal Collective in February...
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Sunset Rubdown Ditch The Studio Magic

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 18, 2009 1:48 pm
Sunset Rubdown and Handsome Furs are both technically bands, but they've also acted as vehicles through which Wolf Parade collaborators Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner have traded album-by-album blows since 2006. With that in mind, it's hard not to envision Sunset Rubdown's latest record, Dragonslayer, as a well-timed counterpunch to the Handsome...
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Sunset Rubdown's Screwy Pop Hits The Road

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 15, 2009 2:10 pm
The press release that publicizes Sunset Rubdown's upcoming disc, Dragonslayer, describes the Montreal band's music as "screwy pop rock," "a skewed approach to pop," and "crazy." For most groups, those would count as insults. For the band birthed by Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug, that sort of language is a plug. "...
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Pumping: Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) May 7, 2009 4:07 pm
Who do you think wins the 2009 Wolf Parade side project release fight: Spencer Krug with Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer or Dan Boeckner with Handsome Furs' Face Control? Better yet, if the two dudes came to fisticuffs, who would reign supreme? Apparently Krug's already beat Boeckner in the best-Family Ties-parody-album-promo category...
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