Album Review: This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet by Moonface

Within the first offering of Spencer Krug's towering swan song album as Moonface before he moves on with his solo composing sans alias, there is a signature stroke that nods to why he is one of the great musical outliers of this century. The fairly straightforward marimba/steel drum joint "Minotaur Forgiving Pasiphae" that begins this flamboyant endeavor gets Krug's pitched percussion embellishment during the last minute-thirty, letting you know who's behind all of this. It's a simple marimba arpeggio, ascending then descending and then swirling outward.

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The latest record from Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug is actually two albums: nine of the tracks are jazzy, sax-centric art-rock jams, while the other seven are marimba-based epics sung with a vocoder and featuring lyrics about the Greek myth of the Minotaur. On their own, both albums would be uniquely experimental; together, they're downright bizarre.   This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet is a disorienting listen: the two sessions are interwoven in the tracklist, rather than presented as A- and B-sides, meaning ….

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