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

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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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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