''Random Spirit Lover'' is
Sunset Rubdown
Sunset Rubdown is a Canadian art rock music group from Montreal. The band began as a solo project for Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, who released his debut, ''Snake's Got a Leg'', in early 2005. By the next year the project expanded to become a f ...
's third
LP, released on October 9, 2007. The album marked Sunset Rubdown's change from the
Absolutely Kosher Records
Absolutely Kosher Records is an independent California-based record label founded in 1998 in San Francisco by Cory Brown. The label moved to Berkeley in 2002 and then to Emeryville in October 2006 when it partnered with Misra Records. The two ...
label to the
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Mo ...
-based
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Jagjaguwar is a label included in Secretly Group, which also includes ...
records. The album was recorded in January 2007 at
Breakglass Studios in Montreal with
Jace Lasek and Dave Smith.
The album was
leaked on July 27, 2007.
The album was voted in as the 14th best album of 2007 by readers of
Pitchfork
A pitchfork (also a hay fork) is an agricultural tool with a long handle and two to five tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves.
The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to ...
, while garnering the most 1st place votes.
[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47707-2007-pitchfork-readers-poll , retrieved January 19, 2007]
Track listing
# "The Mending of the Gown" – 5:36
# "Magic vs. Midas" – 5:59
# "Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days" – 4:47
# "The Courtesan Has Sung" – 4:31
# "Winged/Wicked Things" – 4:46
# "Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns" – 4:54
# "Stallion" – 6:45
# "For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)" – 5:14
# "The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life" – 6:06
# "Setting vs. Rising" – 2:23
# "Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!" – 5:28
# "Child-Heart Losers" – 2:01
References
External links
Stereogum Premature Evaluation"Winged/Wicked Things"(Free Live Recording Download from
Daytrotter
Daytrotter is a recording studio, music venue and subscription-based music discovery website located in Atlanta, United States. It hosts recording sessions with indie rock, indie music acts.
The original studio in Rock Island, Illinois, was foun ...
)
"The Mending of the Gown"(Free Live Recording Download from
Daytrotter
Daytrotter is a recording studio, music venue and subscription-based music discovery website located in Atlanta, United States. It hosts recording sessions with indie rock, indie music acts.
The original studio in Rock Island, Illinois, was foun ...
)
2007 albums
Sunset Rubdown albums
Jagjaguwar albums
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