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Tracklist;;

Spanish Gold, 2044

Paper Lace

Heartswarm

Settle On Your Skin

Ballad Of A Swan Lake, Or, Daniel's Song

Peace

Spider

A Hand At Dusk

Warlock Psychologist

 

Swan Lake is the musical group featuring celebrated songwriter-mystics Daniel Bejar (of Destroyer and New Pornographers), Spencer Krug (of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade) and Carey Mercer (of Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach).

 

Together they recorded Enemy Mine, their nine-song second album, in Victoria, British Columbia, in early 2008, a little more than a year after the release of their well-received debut collaboration, Beast Moans, also on Jagjaguwar.

 

While their debut album was a beautifully-weaved mash-up of their disparate song-writing styles, often with layer upon layer of various melodies and stylistics thrown into a collaborative cauldron to magical, and at times discordant effect, their second album Enemy Mine reflects a more stripped-down, more deliberate approach to collaboration. It's as if they really tried to just make nice songs together. To quote Krug, "There's architecture here." Not that the lyric is about collaboration--it fits nicely though.

 

It is the band's contention that this is the first known use of a "court painting" as a record cover used in popular music. As a result of this enthusiasm, the band had planned on calling the album Before the Law, a beloved Kafka parable and a reference to this court painting. However, the band is tired of being tagged as "literary", so they dubbed the record Enemy Mine, a beloved movie from Bejar's youth, and a good metaphor for collaboration.

 

Woah at all this onslaught of Canadian music. This is coming out soonish (should leak fairly soon), and for those who don't know the new Handsome Furs LP (Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade) and Blackout Beach LP (Carey Mercer solo project) both leaked today.

:wub: Well excited for this tbh.

I agree. :wub: The sheer talent of the three people in this band...gahhh.

Leaked.