Fans of Sunset Rubdown swooned as though they had a case of the vapors. They stomped like their feet were asleep the entire week and tonight they had to be awakened. They held in all their problems when they walked through the doors and finally exhaled when Spencer Krug and company took to the stage. Coincidentally Sunset Rubdown’s show at the Echo was the same day their Dragonslayer came out, but it seems that every one in attendance had the lyrics down cold. Rather odd, as though they had a copy beforehand.
“Idiot Heart” pried open the rusty legs of all those in attendance and somewhere along the way an amazing spaz-out version of “Nightingale/December Song” spread like a canopy fire. If Monopoly were at stake here, I’d say “The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life” won the night.
Spencer mentioned some things about looking into a mirror while his back is to another mirror and how he trips about the concept of infinity (which is a common practice when at the hair solon for all of us). And in those mirror realities there are a million Krug’s and ensembles like Sunset Rubdown. The band (really Canadians in disguise, shhh) rubbed the crowd all the right ways with their sing-along choruses that seem ridiculous at home in our showers, but why not if the guy is right there? |
