Handsome furs
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 Handsome Furs in Helsinki on March 11, 2007 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Montreal , Canada |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock |
| founding | 2005 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Last occupation | |
| Dan Boeckner | |
| Alexei Perry | |
The Handsome Furs were a Canadian indie rock duo from Montreal .
history
Handsome Furs came about when Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner - the two songwriters and singers from Wolf Parade - turned to other projects in order to better implement their own musical ideas. Spencer Krug founded the band Sunset Rubdown and Dan Boeckner founded the duo Handsome Furs with his wife and writer Alexei Perry. Boeckner mostly plays guitar and sings while Perry operates the keyboard and drum computer. The idea of founding his own band first came to Boeckner in winter 2005 when he was experimenting musically with Perry in Vancouver. Then in 2006 the two received the offer to tour Scandinavia. They quickly wrote their own songs, rehearsed them together with cover versions and went on tour without having published their song material. The duo then also opened for Arcade Fire , David Cross and Modest Mouse . The two signed to Sub Pop in late 2006 and recorded their debut album Plague Park in December . In spring 2007 the album was released in the USA and Europe. At the end of 2007 the duo was finally able to go on a US tour. Before that, they had been banned from entering the States for months. In 2009 the Handsome Furs released their second long player, Face Control . Sound Kapital followed in 2011 . On May 17th, 2012 the band announced the dissolution of the Handsome Furs on their homepage.
Trivia
- Handsome Furs (dt. Pretty fur ) is the title of a short story that Alexei Perry had written shortly before the band's formation.
- Plague Park ( Eng . Pest Park , Finnish Ruttopuisto ) is the name of a park in Helsinki , on the site of which the several thousand dead from the plague epidemic of 1710 were buried. Today this place serves as an amusement park. The duo became aware of the park's history on their Scandinavian tour and later named their debut album that way.
Discography
Albums
- 2007: Plague Park (Sub Pop)
- 2009: Face Control (Sub Pop)
- 2011: Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
Singles and EPs
- 2007: Dumb Animals (Sub Pop)
- 2007: Can't Get Started (Sub Pop)
- 2009: I'm Confused (Sub Pop)
- 2009: All We Want, Baby, Is Everything (Sub Pop)
- 2009: Live at Neumo's - Seattle 4.19.08 (Sub Pop)
- 2011: What About Us (Sub Pop)
Web links
- Some hand furs at Discogs (English)
- Handsome Furs at Sub Pop
- Handsome Furs at laut.de