Swan Lake - A Hand At Dusk off 'Enemy Mine' [originally released 03/24/09]



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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.

(JAG128 released: 03/24/09)


Swan Lake - Spider

Angel Olsen "May As Well" from the deluxe edition of Burn Your Fire For No Witness, out November 18th 2014, on Jagjaguwar.

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Angel Olsen "May As Well" from the deluxe edition of Burn Your Fire For No Witness, out November 18th 2014, on Jagjaguwar.

Burn Your Fire For No Witness

May as Well

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Angel Olsen - "May As Well'

Women  - "Black Rice" from 'Women', released 10/07/08 via Jagjaguwar: http://bit.ly/women_SCD

The debut album by Women was recorded over 4 months on ghetto blasters and old tape machines in Chad VanGaalen's basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawl space. Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, this self titled album touches upon Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat while not really having any obvious precursors - a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.

Noisy and claustrophobic songs smash through junkyard trash brawls while others lift and soar across the landscape of 50's-informed pop; a contradiction and an enigma, the debut album by Women will find its way onto summertime pool break-in boombox mixes and the turntables of record store devotees.
Women is Patrick Flegel, Matthew Flegel, Michael Wallace and Christopher Reimer, and the four young men live in Calgary, Canada.

Women  - "Black Rice" from 'Women', released 10/07/08 via Jagjaguwar

Black Rice

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Women -  "Black Rice"

Sharon Van Etten - "Just Like Blood" 

New EP 'I Don't Want To Let You Down' out June 9th on Jagjaguwar!

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Sharon Van Etten - "Just Like Blood"

Just Like Blood

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Okkervil River - "I'm In Love With Susan Smith" from Black Sheep Boy (10th Anniversary Edition) out December 4, 2015 on Jagjaguwar.

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Okkervil River - "I'm In Love With Susan Smith" from Black Sheep Boy (10th Anniversary Edition) out December 4, 2015 on Jagjaguwar.

Black Sheep Boy (10th Anniversary Edition)

Okkervil River - "I'm In Love With Susan Smith"

opening theme i wrote for the new movie I am not a Serial killer.
keep your eyes opening, its a great flick!

On Your Side

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Grounds for Divorce (EP Version)

“Degraded” from ‘Preoccupations’ out September 16, 2016 on Jagjaguwar

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Preoccupations - Degraded

Surrender Monkeys - "Westerly" (2011)

Recorded with a sickly bass guitar which was in the midst of tuning issues and an overall tinny sound which crippled some of the songs. There wasn't an overall theme with this one; I'd just moved "out west" and this collection of songs was a way of avoiding a more complex group of songs I never actually got round to completing. Despite recording issues, it has a few moments I'm really proud of ("Aftermath", "Slow Intention Killed The Game").

Westerly

03 - Westerly

Dragonslayer

Idiot Heart

I Give You Power

Hello people of SoundCloud ...

I'm in the process of uploading 3 albums worth of stuff. 

Surrender Monkeys - "Bikini Atoll" (2012)

Twenty songs all written pretty much on the fly, and all weighing in at no longer than two minutes in length. 

Surrender Monkeys - "Westerly" (2011)

Recorded with a sickly bass guitar which was in the midst of tuning issues and an overall tinny sound which crippled some of the songs. There wasn't an overall theme with this one; I'd just moved "out west" and this collection of songs was a way of avoiding a more complex group of songs I never actually got round to completing. Despite recording issues, it has a few moments I'm really proud of ("Aftermath", "Slow Intention Killed The Game").


Surrender Monkeys - "Fame In The Fast-Lane" (2007)

It does what it says on the tin - twelve songs all about the trials and tribulations of fame and being famous. A fairly prolific period - I churned out the songs relatively quickly and inspiration seemed to be pretty much everywhere. I visited the US mid-recording which provided a bunch of new ideas ("From Citgo to Titusville", "H is for Hollywood") and the media was rife with current celebrity meltdowns (Robbie Williams and poor old Britney).

It's got a little bit of everything really - alien encounters in the desert, ex-boy band singers, celebrity suicides, vicars killed in balloons and a tasty "night of the living dead" sample on the final track. 

I've had worse moments.

03 - Westerly

Surrender Monkeys

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