Random Spirit Lover is Sunset Rubdown

Sunset Rubdown

Sunset Rubdown is an art rock band from Montreal, Canada. The band began as a solo project for Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, who released his debut, Snake's Got a Leg, in early 2005...

's third LP

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, released on October 9, 2007. The album marked Sunset Rubdown's change from the Absolutely Kosher Records

Absolutely Kosher Records

Absolutely Kosher Records is an independent California-based record label founded in 1998 in San Francisco by Cory Brown. The label moved to Berkeley in 2002 and then to Emeryville in October 2006 when it partnered with Misra Records...

 label to the Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington, Indiana

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-based Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar is an indie rock record label based in Bloomington, Indiana.-History:In 1996, in Charlottesville, Virginia, friends of Darius Van Arman who performed in a band under the moniker The Curious Digit had just recorded a new album, but they were signed to no label...

 records. The album was recorded in January 2007 at Breakglass Studios in Montreal with Jace Lasek

Jace Lasek

Jace Lasek is a Canadian musician and producer living in Montreal. He and his wife Olga Goreas are the principal songwriters for the Montreal-based indie rock band The Besnard Lakes. Lasek plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. He is also the band's lead vocalist.Furthermore, Lasek runs...

 and Dave Smith.

The album was leaked

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 on July 27, 2007.

The album was voted in as the 14th best album of 2007 by readers of Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media

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, while garnering the most 1st place votes.

Track listing

1. "The Mending of the Gown" - 5:36
2. "Magic vs. Midas" - 5:59
3. "Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days" - 4:47
4. "The Courtesan Has Sung" - 4:31
5. "Winged/Wicked Things" - 4:46
6. "Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns" - 4:54
7. "Stallion" - 6:45
8. "For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)" - 5:14
9. "The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life" - 6:06
10. "Setting vs. Rising" - 2:23
11. "Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!" - 5:28
12. "Child-Heart Losers" - 2:01

External links

• Stereogum Premature Evaluation
• "Winged/Wicked Things" (Free Live Recording Download from Daytrotter
  Daytrotter
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• "The Mending of the Gown" (Free Live Recording Download from Daytrotter
  Daytrotter
  Daytrotter is a website for the recording studio Horseshack, which hosts recording sessions with many popular and typically upcoming indie music acts, although it works with local bands in the Illinois area as well. The sessions can be compared to that of a radio station's lounge recordings, where...
  
  )