New Sunset Rubdown album, "Dragon Slayer".

Coming out this Tuesday is a new album by one of my favorite bands, Sunset Rubdown. If you're not familiar with them they are fronted by famed indie rocker, Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade. The new album is not my favorite but I've yet to stop listening to it since I recieved it a month ago. It's more accessible than their previous work, "Random Spirit Lover" which was a lot denser and fuller whereas this takes a more formulaic pop approach. Give their single a listen here: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/idiotheart.mp3 and if you like that give the whole album a listen at NPR.com

I knew her in the dim light

Shrouded with the fog of early morning
Another passer-by on his procured journey
Left with soil in his shoes and soot in his pockets
Checks his pocket watch and heeds the signs to his direction
Left his clues to some longed detective's inspection
"She will mend his heart with some familiar song"
Is the familiar thought.
As he stays ace in his pace and hurries through the deserted streets
Left levitating in his lingering mind of moments once passed and those that escape him
"Will she know me by name or by chance"
"Shall I be the one to imagine this dance?"
"Cast my stones to this violent sea, see which skips and which sinks?"
His thoughts tangled in the lines of his suit as his jacket whips in the winds
....And drifts him out to space
"Another day, not this one."
"But whose to count on chance and let another pass..."
Distant future is a dark one
Blinding and far
"I knew her in the dim light"