Sound it Out # 19: Moonface - "Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips"

This is slightly complicated. Moonface is Spencer Krug and whatever collaborators he’s working with at the moment. So, this particular Moonface record is titled With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery because Spencer went to Helsinki to make the album with Finnish band Siinai.

Spencer also plays with Frog Eyes, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, Fifths of Seven, Wolf Parade (RIP) and various other projects. He is a busy, busy man.

Judging by the lyric sheet, Spencer's no stranger to romantic despair. “Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips” joins Krug’s big, bombastic voice with Siinai’s precise rock to create one of the oddest sing-along anthems I’ve ever heard; Stevie Nicks gets named-checked twice.

With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery isn’t out until April, but you can download “Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips” right this minute - it’s free for a week.

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franko

wait, Wolf Parade, RIP?
since when?
:’ (
- crimpers
  
  Technically, they are on “hiatus” since mid-last year. Additionally, Fifths of Seven has not done anything since 2005 and he hasn’t done anything with Frog Eyes since 2006 or 2007. Sunset Rubdown and Swan Lake (part-time supergroup) are still “together” AFAIK. Which is not to say he’s not hardworking or hasn’t had some impact on recent (particularly Canadian) indie rock, but the blurb above is flat-out-wrong-Wikipedia-homework-cribbing-and-not-even-paying-enough-attention-to-get-it right hooey.
  
  And yes, Frog Eyes and Carey Mercer would kill Spencer in a prog-off.
  - http://twitter.com/lucyhelenrob Lucy Robinson
    
    Well, technically Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown are now broken up.
    - crimpers
      
      Well technically, record label PR shill:
      
      Frog Eyes > Wolf Parade > Sunset Rubdown > Swan Lake >>> Moonface . . . and 5ths of 7 don’t even count because they are dreadfully terrible. But you keep on turfing, gurrrrrl!
      - Ian Langohr
        
        I am all for the Frog Eyes love, but Wolf Parade better than Sunset and Moonface is crazy. I think WP pays the bills for him, but his passion is in the other two.
      - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003334386707 Sea Glass
        
        How can you say it’s terrible? I mean, I can understand why you wouldn’t like it, but it is SO far from terrible. It’s classical music! It’s original, and creative. It may be unusual, but it is far from dreadful.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003334386707 Sea Glass
    
    Actually, Sunset Rubdown is done.
marilove

He and Josh Homme would probably get along. How many bands can one dude have?! haha
awjt

It’s Bowie in disguise!
JonSchweitzer

Those guys look like they could use a hug.
- CH
  
  Nah, they are just Finnish… we look like that, we are fine (hey, the guy second to right is even smiling!). I was just scrolling through the BoingBoing page and had passed this picture when my mental buffer caught up and I went “wait a minute… those were Finnish guys in the picture”, and right I was.
Spriggan_Prime

how tragically hip.
cheer up guys you get to make music for a living.
purple-stater

Good stuff.
http://twitter.com/Orbulas Orbulas B. Harding

Spencer has been my favorite fellow making music for a very long while now (I think since a little after I interviewed him in ’05) But in my book, he’s still in the close company of his buddy Carey Mercer (who I think is probably the smartest guy currently making music)
I don’t think the first proper Moonface LP, “Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped” was close to his best album, but it was a really interesting experiment from a guy who truly experiments with his craft and it did have a few really wonderful songs (not to mention some of his best lyrics). That said, if you’re a fan of pop music that really pushes its own boundaries, I can’t recommend Moonface’s first EP, “Dreamland:Marimba and Shit Drums” enough; it’s a 20 minute composition that recalls Steve Reich and Philip Glass without being anything but its’ own thing. It’s a really dense, engrossing and demanding listen, but ultimately it reveals itself as incredibly beautiful and not a small bit moving.
Between this record with Siinai and some future record prospects I’ve heard him talking about, I’m more than excited for the future of Moonface.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003334386707 Sea Glass
  
  Dude, Organ Music live was soooooooo much better than the album, it makes me kind of sad or disappointed. I mean, there was way more to the music. More emotion, more energy, even more instrumentation. So amazing. The album, is still absolutely fantastic, and one of my favourites, but I have this weird tic where if Spencer Krug created it, it just perfectly melds into my sphere. Holy shit this man makes the best music there is, to me at least.
auuop

marimba and shit drums is perfect dinner music.
i got so fed up with people inflicting too much poppseudofolk on me IN MY OWN HOUSE that i made them sit through moonface at dinner, on repeat.
it made me happy on both levels.
ratsontoast

i like moonface

Moonface: "Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips" (MP3 download)

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