May 10 street date. Limited clear blue vinyl edition of Sunset Rubdown's third album, 2007's "Random Spirit Lover". The woven lyrics and singular songwriting style heard in Sunset Rubdown invoke a mythological world, where magical narratives and tiny metaphors give shape to ordinary objects in the room; sometimes beautiful, sometimes beastly. The moniker was first born to bare the solo bedroom recordings of Spencer Krug, but has since evolved into a full-fledged band. "Random Spirit Lover" features twelve songs that bleed in and out of each other, mixing portents with theatrics, confusions with conversions. The dark glamour of the music beneath the half-baked revelations in rhyme creates a tone of high drama, blown-out and overt, but the stage is wild and the roles aren't clear, so the sincerity of the work and the spontaneity of the recordings can't help but shine through the formality of structure.
September 20 street date. Sunset Rubdown are set to release their fourth studio album (their first in 15 years!), "Always Happy To Explode". Twenty years ago Spencer Krug began using the name Sunset Rubdown for his solo bedroom recordings, experiments too lo-fi and odd for what was then a blossoming Wolf Parade, but by 2005 Sunset Rubdown had evolved into a full band. The band recorded their third critically-acclaimed album, "Dragon Slayer", in Chicago in 2008, then went on to play their last show in Tokyo in 2009, with the implicit knowledge it was their last. They broke up quietly, their certitude that they'd never reunite growing as the years rolled on. Then one night more than a dozen years after their final show Krug had a dream (he really did) that the band reunited, and the first thing he did upon awakening was email the band to see if the dream might be made real. The answer was a resounding yes, and soon enough Sunset Rubdown was onstage again. And they decided to make a new album together. "Always Happy To Explode" is composed of nine songs cherry-picked from demos that Krug has
been posting to his Patreon page over recent years, with the songs in many cases being pared down from their previous incarnations, yet no less lush. With "Always Happy To Explode", Sunset Rubdown have made something that captures their gratitude and the energy of their joyous (and sometimes difficult) reunion.
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