Blog: The Needle Drop

If Plague Park is a hangover, Face Control is the night before. Handsome Furs, the husband/wife duo of handsome people have picked up the pace on the followup to their 2007 album, which sounded half-alive and too sparse. Face Control has more pep, as if the band took more time in the studio to get their drum machine on the right settings, and then changed the bpm. The first single, "I'm Confused," begins like a hive of bees, and then gets all new wavy with a kick of hyper distorted [...]