Handsome Furs
Handsome Furs are perfect for their unhealthy atmospheres and flaying
minimalism. The band - or duo, rather - from Montreal sounds so New York that it
seems to have been born somewhere in the Bowery. The gaunt ghosts of Richard
Hell and Tom Verlaine brood over 2007's Plague Park, and its successor Face
Control, which promises to make 2009 a year of unease and twisted bellies, of
stale air breathed in greedily.
