Sunset Rubdown has always had a sort of quasi-mystical, distant feeling in their music. Since they released Shut Up I Am Dreaming back in 2006, this was prevalent in almost all the songs. But there's something in 2007's Random Spirit Lover's track "The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life" that recalls time periods of the past that swell under Spencer Krug's voice.
The song's narrative that drifts in and out from a vague conversation to metaphors that will travel in your mind bit by bit, all while Krug's lyrical foreplay will have you guessing at whether he's reminiscing on a friend's wise words "She said: My sails are flapping in the wind/ I said: Can I use that in a song?/She said: I mean, The end begins/I said: I know, can I use that too?" or a repressed paranoia "Don't get too close; you reflect the west coast air in my chest and the way I hold it in there."
Either way you take in the lyrics, from the ascending keyboard and guitar riff, the hooray-the-king-is-here chanting, and crooning vocals, "The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life" is a pristine example of Sunset Rubdown's mature and mythical song craftsmanship.
Sunset Rubdown - The Taming of The Hands That Came Back to Life
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