Canadian rocker Dan Boeckner is a busy, busy man. After high school and the inevitable small-time bands, he got organized with some friends and made Atlas Strategic, a rolling, blues-esk, electro-rock ride that has a schizophrenic, chaotic quality to it, not dissimilar of Tom Waits' work. And just like Tom, they can make weird noises sound normal, and vice versa. But, though the ride is wild, it always returns to a steady path, which gives the album a fun, but conscious feel to it. It still remains bound by this cohesive, (and crucial, if you want the album to be listenable) lyrical style that makes the album feel coherent, because we all, overtly or secretly, hate the fuck out of jam-bands. Get bent, Jerry Garcia.Though these guys only recorded one more album before their '02 breakup, (That's Familiar!, released that same year) Boeckner went on to work in indie-rock with fellow busy-man Spencer Krug (of Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, Fifths of Seven, and Sunset Rubdown) in the immensely popular Wolf Parade. He now is working with his wife, Alexei Perry, on the amazing (and already posted) side-project Handsome Furs, but still tours with Wolf Parade, and even contributed guitar-work on the Islands' debut, Return to the Sea.
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Note: Here's another band with a great album, but an awful fucking cover. Seriously guys, people sometimes make purchasing decisions based on album-art, as dumb as it sounds. Would you have picked up Electric Light Orchestra's pop-masterpiece Out of the Blue based on the cover, if you had never heard of them before?
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