Moonface: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped

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Halfway through “Loose Heart = Loose Plan,” the final track on Moonface’s debut Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped, the singer asks, “You wanna sing like me?” Actually, no one else sings like Moonface’s leader, the prolific Spencer Krug. His hypersensitive voice is strangled and cramped, the midpoint of a warble and a bleat that’s instantly recognizable in his work with half a dozen bands, most famously Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped not only bears Krug’s distinctive voice, but almost all of the traits that have come to define his output. It is an intriguing if occasionally slight recapitulation of Krug’s chief strengths.