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The Return of the Supergroup!

Posted at 9:25 PM on February 2, 2007 by Jacquie Fuller

This is, apparently, old news, but I'm gonna post it anyway. Why? Because it's exciting.

I've been a huge Wold Parade / Sunset Rubdown fan for a while now, but I just discovered Swan Lake. Talk aboot a Canadian supergroup: Dan Bejar from the New Pornographers, Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade, and Carey Mercer from Frog Eyes (great band, but I have to be in the mood.)

As my better half says: "Canadians are kicking our butts ... in rock and roll and healthcare."

I love Dan Bejar, well, for two reasons. 1) He sounds like a latter-day Robyn Hitchcock, and 2) the county in Texas I grew up in was called Bexar (an indigenous word pronounced "Bey-har.") And Krug? Oh, god--don't get me started. That warbling voice. Those overblown lyrics.

Here's a fun game. You, too, can produce your own Spencer Krug song titles. Find that Greek tragedy book still sitting on your shelf from college. Open to any page and find a line. Find nine more. Make up ten of your own Spencer Krug-esque song titles using these lines. Here's a few of mine, pulled from Euripides' The Trojan Women: "They Who Are Sad Find Somehow Sweetness in Tears--The Song of Lamentation and the Melancholy Muse," "How Strange a Way to Call On Gods," "Balestar of this Earth Now," "The Flame of the Clouded Sacraments," "I Shall Look No More on the Bodies of My Sons" and--one more--"The Multitudes of Our Children Stand." Okay, one more (I could do this all night): "In the Vile Marriage, The Sorrows," which I think was the ancient Greek version of "Grounds for Divorce."

Any new millenium supergroups rockin' your world?

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