Spencer Krug Announces New Moonface Album My Best Human Face With Siinai, Releases New Song "Risto's Riff": Listen

Spencer Krug has announced the latest album under his Moonface moniker. My Best Human Face, the follow-up to 2013's album Julia with Blue Jeans On and 2014's City Wrecker EP, arrives June 3 via Jagjaguwar. The seven-track release marks Krug's latest body of work with Finnish band Siinai, with whom he previously collaborated for the 2012 album With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. In advance of the release, Moonface and Siinai have shared "Risto's Riff," the album's first single. Listen to it above, and below, check out the album art and tracklisting. 

The latest Moonface album arrives just as Krug's former band Wolf Parade return from a lengthy hiatus. Next month, the band will reissue their excellent debut album Apologies to the Queen Mary and head out on tour. Read our interview with Krug about Wolf Parade's reunion plans.

Here's what Krug had to say about the album in a press release:

I called this thing My Best Human Face not only because that's one of my favorite lines on the album, but because I sometimes don't know who I am, or if I'm as kind and generous and happy as other people. The title speaks to the vague theme of identity-confusion that is loosely woven into the songs - a reoccurring theme I recognized only after the writing was done. It’s a confusion which I think exists for most of us, sure, but that doesn’t mean it has to be the campfire in the middle of our circle; we don’t have to stare into the flames. It’s simply not that important. At end of it all, these are good-time songs, meant to inspire good times in the listener. They were made joyously, with a stubborn love of music at their centre. And while some of the content might be dark or sad, the memories of making these songs brings only gladness and gratitude, and it's their construction, not deconstruction, that I want to celebrate now.

My Best Human Face:

01 The Nightclub Artiste
02 Risto’s Riff
03 Them Call Themselves Old Punks
04 Ugly Flower Pretty Vase
05 City Wrecker
06 Prairie Boy
07 The Queen Of Both Darkness And Light

via Zoe Camp