New project from Glenn Donaldson (The Skygreen Leopards) and Josh Alper, The Art Museums. Not much information on these guys for the time being, other than they will be releasing their tunes under the stellar Woodsist label. Imagine someone had just traveled back in time and handed an electronic beat machine to Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Yeah, this stuff is good.
The Art Museums – Sculpture Gardens
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If you don’t already know, The Skygreen Leopards have a brilliant release in Gorgeous Johnny for us to look forward to. SGL will be playing this 11th in the San Fran area with LPs for sale (proper “shelf” release on the 21st via Jagjaguwar).
The Skygreen Leopards – Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass
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Spencer Krug has established himself as a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy. In this case however, he is the master of all. Their newest tune, “Idiot Heart”, from their forthcoming Dragonslayer album is a great demonstration of not only his composition skills, but that the chemistry of Sunset Rubdown is a perfect formula. A long-winded six minutes of build, BAM(!), and a gentle letdown make “Idiot Heart” a beautiful mash up of synth, muzzled guitar, xylophone, and an unmistakable Krug like vocal delivery. I also can’t forget to mention the amazing vernacular of Krug and how he paints such lucid images with his words. “I hope you die in a decent pair of shoes, you’ve got a lot long walking to do”, WOW! Makes the wait for the new album a nail biter. Available for pre-order at Insound (release on 6/23 via Jagjaguwar). Wait! Pre-order the album today and you will get an mp3 version of the album e-mailed to you a month in advance.
This entry was written by , posted on May 13, 2009 at 10:13 am, filed under New Tunes, local music and tagged jagjaguwar, spencer krug, sunset rubdown. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
