Jagjaguwar are proud to announce that SUNSET RUBDOWN will play the following UK and Irish headline dates in September.
September 10 Glasgow, Stereo 7.30pm, £9 adv
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=323771
September 11 Belfast, Spring And Airbrake 9pm, £12.25 adv
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/1800429EE0AF60FE?artistid=9612 55&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
September 12 Dublin, Crawdaddy 8pm, €14 adv
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/1800429BE9DF5B89?artistid=9616 19&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
September 13 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 7pm, £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50602
September 14 Manchester, The Deaf Institute 7.30pm, £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49760
September 15 London, Garage 7pm, £10 adv
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=323238
September 16 Cardiff, The Globe 8pm, £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/51612
The Montreal quintet recently released their third album Dragonslayer to much acclaim, including the coveted Best New Music accolade on Pitchfork and a rare 10/10 rating on Drowned in Sound:
Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
Review / Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound
Sunset Rubdown was once the moniker under which Spencer Krug released low fidelity solo recordings. The project has long since evolved into a full band, and Dragonslayer is the third full-length recorded by the whole group. Besides Krug, it features the three musicians who originally signed on: Jordan Robson-Cramer on drums, guitar and keys, Michael Doerksen on guitar and bass, and Camilla Wynne Ingr on keys, percussion and vocals. And now, for the first time, newest member Mark Nicol can be heard on bass, drums, and percussion.
Sunset Rubdown's previous release on Jagjaguwar, Random Spirit Lover, was a studio-built album, in that much of it was written while recording (built up in separate layers, with almost all the vocals needing to be overdubbed). With the new album, the band wanted to try something completely different. It was a very conscious decision, and not a "natural progression." The result is an album that feels honest, natural, and straightforward. The musicianship is left in the open, unassisted by studio magic, and the songs are left to justify for themselves their own screwy pop-rock existence.
Dragonslayer was recorded in the fall of 2008. Sunset Rubdown hope that the true strength of this new album is a hidden complexity that emerges slowly from within the straight production and raw musicianship, and from what sounds at first to be an only slightly skewed approach to pop. They hope it's like that one friend of yours who looks unassuming and normal, but once you get to know him it's obvious he's basically crazy.
Sunset Rubdown
Jagjaguwar Artist Page
Press Alcove
September 10 Glasgow, Stereo 7.30pm, £9 adv
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=323771
September 11 Belfast, Spring And Airbrake 9pm, £12.25 adv
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/1800429EE0AF60FE?artistid=9612 55&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
September 12 Dublin, Crawdaddy 8pm, €14 adv
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/1800429BE9DF5B89?artistid=9616 19&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
September 13 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 7pm, £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50602
September 14 Manchester, The Deaf Institute 7.30pm, £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49760
September 15 London, Garage 7pm, £10 adv
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=323238
September 16 Cardiff, The Globe 8pm, £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/51612
The Montreal quintet recently released their third album Dragonslayer to much acclaim, including the coveted Best New Music accolade on Pitchfork and a rare 10/10 rating on Drowned in Sound:
Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
Review / Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound
Sunset Rubdown was once the moniker under which Spencer Krug released low fidelity solo recordings. The project has long since evolved into a full band, and Dragonslayer is the third full-length recorded by the whole group. Besides Krug, it features the three musicians who originally signed on: Jordan Robson-Cramer on drums, guitar and keys, Michael Doerksen on guitar and bass, and Camilla Wynne Ingr on keys, percussion and vocals. And now, for the first time, newest member Mark Nicol can be heard on bass, drums, and percussion.
Sunset Rubdown's previous release on Jagjaguwar, Random Spirit Lover, was a studio-built album, in that much of it was written while recording (built up in separate layers, with almost all the vocals needing to be overdubbed). With the new album, the band wanted to try something completely different. It was a very conscious decision, and not a "natural progression." The result is an album that feels honest, natural, and straightforward. The musicianship is left in the open, unassisted by studio magic, and the songs are left to justify for themselves their own screwy pop-rock existence.
Dragonslayer was recorded in the fall of 2008. Sunset Rubdown hope that the true strength of this new album is a hidden complexity that emerges slowly from within the straight production and raw musicianship, and from what sounds at first to be an only slightly skewed approach to pop. They hope it's like that one friend of yours who looks unassuming and normal, but once you get to know him it's obvious he's basically crazy.
Sunset Rubdown
Jagjaguwar Artist Page
Press Alcove
