Handsome Furs is that whole mystery/riddle/enigma thing wrapped in a musical quesadilla, a concept “band” without a concept. The Furs serve as a break for Montreal-based guitarist Dan Boeckner during his days away from Wolf Parade and Atlas Strategic. It also affords him a little quality creative time with his wife, keyboardist and shortstory writer Alexei Perry.
The pair’s first outing, 2007’s Plague Park, was an experimentally interesting work of spare minimalism that set Boeckner’s lyrics of alienation and societal loathing against his insistent guitar and Perry’s simply programmed drum beats. The album attracted an audience among Wolf Parade’s rabid fan base but was hit-or-miss with some critics, who found the album’s chilly presentation alienating.
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