Handsome Furs
Face Control

Though Face Control was at least partly inspired by Eastern Europe, and more specifically, calculating head games played by surly Muscovites, it’s les...

Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry have unleashed a mild creature of an album by the name of Face Control. The second attempt at musical diversity for Boec...

It began, ostensibly, by trading the scenery of one hemisphere for another. It ended (as inevitably as all good things must) in the recording booth of...

Many people, as fans of most anything are wont to do, seek out in the music they like a figure—band leader, principal songwriter, whatever—to whom the...

‘Face Control’ is a strange record - neither compatible with the entirely hapless feyness of the Postal Service nor their slightly racier contemporari...

I typically vote Democratic not because I actually trust the party or its members, but because their bullshit is easier for me to get behind. Face Con...

The husband and wife team of Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry clearly have a lot of love for each other. You can effectively sense it in their music and ...

Handsome Furs? debut, Plague Park draped Alexei Perry?s programmed drums and synthesizers in her partner Dan Boeckner?s shaggy, distorted guitars and ...

Most greeted Plague Park with enthusiasm that didn’t match the reaction (including myself). Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner is also one of the leaders of ...

The trouble with Plague Park, the 2007 debut LP from the then-betrothed duo Handsome Furs, was that it never sounded like anything but a side project....