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The Handsome Furs Wiki Information
Handsome Furs is an indie rock band from Montreal, Canada. The band is comprised of husband/wife duo Dan Boeckner, from Wolf Parade and Atlas Strategic, and short story writer Alexei Perry. The band signed on to Sub Pop Records in late 2006, and released their first full-length album, Plague Park
, in 2007.
The band's name comes from the title of a short story that Alexei was writing at the time of band's conception. [1]
In a December 2007 interview, Dan revealed that Handsome Furs are in the writing stages of a new full-length album, titled Face Control
: "When Alexei and I got back from Russia we were going to do an EP, but we’re also going to do a full album of new songs because we have so many. It’s going to be different than the last record... The last one was so intense and heavy in one direction that we wanted to do something different..." [2] The inspiration behind Face Control
involves a peculiar aspect of club culture they observed while on tour in Eastern Europe: if party goers wish to reserve a table at a bar in Moscow, they must pay large sums of money through PayPal or with cash; however, their seat is still not guaranteed - bouncers have the authority to turn reserved patrons away from the bar based solely on appearance, which has been coined "face control".
New songs were showcased during Handsome Furs spring tour, including the song titles: "Officer of Hearts", "Heaven", "Legal Tender", and "Radio Kaliningrad". [3] On November 12, 2008, Sub Pop records announced that Handsome Furs second album Face Control
will be released February 3, 2009. [4] Also reported was the album's complete track listing, which includes twelve tracks.[
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THE HANDSOME FURS TICKETS
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Personnel
- Dan Boeckner: vocals, guitar, drum machine
- Alexei Perry: Synth, drum machine
Discography
- Plague Park
(2007) - Sub Pop Records
- Face Control
(2009; pending) - Sub Pop Records
References
- Blake Gillespie, "Interview: Handsome Furs", ''Impose Magazine'', May 17, 2007.
- Radio Free Canuckistan, "Dan Boeckner Interview", December 12, 2007.
- YouTube video: "Office of Hearts", North Star Bar, Philadelphia, April 4, 2008.
- Sub Pop Records, Handsome Furs: ''Face Control'', subpop.com, November 12, 2008.
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