
Dan Boeckner, who has crafted some of my favorite songs of the last few years with both Handsome Furs and Wolf Parade, may have outdone himself with his latest release. Face Control , the sophomore album from Handsome Furs, his collaboration with his wife Alexi, is the strongest collection of songs he has created and is one of the best CDs that has come out this year. Boeckner, who writes the slightly more straight forward (compared to Spencer Krug) and existential songs for Wolf Parade, started performing under the Handsome Furs moniker a little over two years ago. The [...]