Spencer Krug’s Same Fangs gets a 21 May critical spotlight

Spencer Krug’s Same Fangs received a 21 May review, giving the Canadian songwriter’s latest solo record a strong exact-date news hook. Krug is still best known to many indie listeners through Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake and Moonface, but Same Fangs belongs firmly to the idiosyncratic solo world he has been building through his Patreon series and independent releases.

The album gathers re-recorded highlights from that subscription project, reshaping them with piano, strings, guitar, additional drums and guest vocals. What makes Same Fangs interesting is that it refuses to behave like an easy entry point, even after renewed attention around Krug’s older work.

The songs are strange, recursive and self-aware, often seeming to write about songwriting while still carrying real emotional unease underneath. Krug’s voice remains one of indie rock’s most distinctive instruments: theatrical, vulnerable, slightly haunted and capable of turning an abstract phrase into something that feels personally dangerous.

For a 21 May digest, Same Fangs is a strong review item because it reminds readers that indie songwriting does not always need to be streamlined. Sometimes the power is in the maze, the odd metaphor, the piano chord that seems to wobble under the room, and the feeling that the artist is thinking too much but somehow making music out of the overthinking. Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/spencer-krug-same-fangs/