WITCHIES @ echoplex

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Throughout all his instrumental pageantry, Krug’s vocal presence is strong, both as a stylist and a lyricist. There’s more than a whiff of obscure mysticism and archaic vocabulary in his lyrics, which might turn off more literal listeners. But Krug has a knack for couching his baffling imagery in compelling, repetitive syntax that shapes a narrative from his procession of characters– courtesans, jackals, virgins, and stallions.

Insofar as I can boil down Sunset Rubdown to a single moment, it’s one near the end of “Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days”. The song’s maniacal carnival music, which until this point has rocketed through a rollercoaster’s worth of peaks and valleys, settles into barren dirge where Krug’s lyrics come clear. “Because you’re the one who’s riding around on a leopard,” he sings with his usual creaky splendor. “You’re the one who’s throwing dead birds in the air.” This moment doesn’t compartmentalize Sunset Rubdown; it traces out the broadest contours of their allure: The striking image that sticks in the mind, unfathomable but heavy with meaning, for days; the carefully contrasted song structure, and the sense that this is a band uncompromising in its vision, making music with more depth and longevity than its stubborn relegation to “side project” merits. – Pitchfork

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@ Echoplex
enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90026

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