Swan Lake

An indie rock and roll supergroup with ties to Destroyer, the brand new Pornographers, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eye, and Wolf Parade, Swan Lake formed in 2005 round the shared skills of Dan Bejar, Spencer Krug, and Carey Mercer. The cooperation was quite a while in the producing, as all three music artists had previously worked well together in a few capability. Krug, also of Wolf Parade, experienced done and off with Mercer’s Frog Eye for a long time, and both music artists were previous roommates. In the mean time, Bejar asked Frog Eye to serve as his support music group for Destroyer’s 2005 opus, Your Blues. Collectively, the music artists also recorded fresh versions of tunes from your own Blues entitled Notorious Lightning along with other Functions. Before 2005 found a detailed, the three close friends dismantled their short-term name, the Songwriters Task, and christened themselves Swan Lake. Their self-produced debut recording, Beast Moans, found its way to November 2006 via the Jagjaguwar label. Foe Mine followed in ’09 2009, having a even more collaborative method of the bandmates’ songwriting.