Husband and wife team Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry comprise the Montreal based pair Handsome Furs. Signed with Sub Pop in late 2006, their first album, Plague Park, was released the following year. Dan Boeckner, also a member of Wolf Parade, claims the inspiration behind the recently released sophomore effort, Face Control, involves a peculiar aspect of club culture they observed while on tour in Eastern Europe The album's juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats with jagged, dissonant and frail guitars convey what it is to be human in the 21st century. At the same time, it provides the means to opt out.