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Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital

Review by Neil Ashman

Sound Kapitol is a successful, if slightly creatively stifling refinement of a fruitful and unique musical partnership. »

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'sound kapital' is the third full-length from handsome furs, the canadian two-piece of husband and wife dan boeckner and alexei perry. it's also the first handsome furs album written exclusively on keyboards. this was a conscious decision. here in 2011, the suggestion that electronic music is cold, alien or unfeeling, somehow detached from the human experience, is as lingering as it is outdated. handsome furs don't just shrug off this myth on 'sound kapital', they reject it with every fiber of their shared being. on this new album they use keyboards and drum machines to forge life-affirming anthems taut with muscle and blood. these nine songs of innocence and experience occasionally look ahead to a better world in the not-so-distant future, but handsome furs know what time it is: now. they are fully engaged in the moment and their surroundings, wherever that may be.
'sound kapital' was recorded quickly, polished and rehearsed in the furs' derelict montreal studio, then preserved for posterity by longtime producers howard bilerman and arlen thompson at hotel2tango, mixed by finnish dudes antti joas and jonas verwijnen at kaiku studios in helsinki and berlin, and mastered by harris newman at grey market mastering in montreal. cold, alien and unfeeling? hardly. 'sound kapital' is hot, noisy, over-stimulated and ready to take on the world.
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