Swan Lake – Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar: March 2009)
For those not in the know, Swan Lake is a trio of Canadian indie musicians hailing from 3 (or 4 or 5) of the best rock groups currently populating the Great White North: Spencer Krug, of Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown; Dan Bejar of Destroyer and the New Pornographers; and Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes. The unlikely triumvirate emerged in 2008 with their debut album, Beast Moans, a Schumpeterian result of their distinctive and chaotic styles. The album is thrush with the kind of apocalyptic gothic imagery you would expect to encounter at the event horizon of hell. That being said, Enemy Mine offers the same type of style and imagery but it is infinitely more subtle, and one might say, more careful in its total outward perception.
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