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Plague Park

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Released
  
May 22, 2007

Plague Park (2007)
  
Face Control (2009)

Release date
  
22 May 2007

Genre
  
Indie rock

Length
  
36:31

Artist
  
Handsome Furs

Label
  
Sub Pop

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Recorded
  
December, 2006 Mount Zoomer: Montreal

Similar
  
Face Control, Sound Kapital, On Little Known Frequencies, I Can Wonder What You, At Mount Zoomer

Handsome furs plague park full album


Plague Park is Handsome Furs' first full-length album. Handsome Furs is Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Atlas Strategic) and his wife, Alexei Perry.

Contents

The record is named after the park Ruttopuisto, situated in Helsinki, Finland. Commonly referred to as "Plague Park", the park grounds sit atop a mass grave that contains the victims of the 1710 plague.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry.

Personnel

The following people contributed to Plague Park:

Handsome Furs

  • Dan Boeckner
  • Alexei Perry
  • Additional personnel

  • Handsome Furs - Audio Engineer, Audio Production
  • H.F. - Engineer
  • Chad Jones - Audio Engineer, Audio Production, Help
  • Harris Newman - Mastering
  • Arlen Thompson - Audio Engineer, Audio Production, Engineer, Mixing, Producer
  • Reception

    Plague Park has received generally positive reviews. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 72 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

    Songs

    1What We Had3:57
    2Hearts of Iron3:36
    3Handsome Furs Hate This City4:59

    References

    Plague Park Wikipedia