Sunset Rubdown
Sunset Rubdown is an experimental art-rock five-piece from Montreal.
A solo project turned four-piece and now five-piece, Sunset Rubdown has been around for over five years with two EPs and four albums already under their terry cloth robes. Truth is, I had never heard of them up until recently. But it was a fateful encounter and my ears are quite content to be catching up.
And that's the beauty of stumbling across an already-established band: If you like one song or album, you don't have to twiddle your thumbs until the next one comes out because you already have a plethora of tunes to sift through.
I'm really digging Sunset Rubdown's sound because it's more of an experience than background music. I wouldn't throw on a Sunset Rubdown album at low volume while multitasking, but I might blast it while chilling on the couch and absorbing each song's dense instrumental layers.
Really though, each song feels like an eccentrically epic tale with its grand arcs, fantastical storylines, rich metaphors, and overall dizzying melodies.
Yet I'm still having a hard time describing their sound because I feel it's both literally and figuratively 'out of this word': Am I waltzing in a castle? Floating in space with Bowie? Lost in a house of mirrors? About to avenge a murder? At times, all of the above.
I haven't gotten to their latest album, Dragonslayer, yet, but I did hear the following track from it and I'm really enjoying the gorgeous guitars:
I would love to see Sunset Rubdown live one day. Anyone 'been there, done that'?
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