Out of all the side projects commonly associated with the Canadian indie rock group Wolf Parade (and there are a lot of them), Handsome Furs, which is comprised of Wolf Parade guitarist Dan Boeckner and his wife Alexei Perry, are the weakest. While Wolf Parade successfully combines the distinct songwriting talents of Boeckner and Spencer Krug (Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes) to create elaborate, keyboard-driven post-punk, Face Control feels like a indigent foray into synth pop. The album is weighed down by its lazy dance beats, which muddles Boeckner's progressive songwriting skills. Face Control fails to discern itself from a genre that is already oversaturated with similar sounding synth-driven indie rock.
2/5.
http://www.myspace.com/handsomefurs
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