Heartbreaking Bravery

It's a common practice for indie rock records to end with the album's slowest, moodiest, and most dramatically lingering song. This happens so often it's beyond citing examples; it's a trend that's afforded itself a distinction all its own, that "last song on the album" kinda song. Heartbreaking Bravery, the second album by Wolf Parade singer Spencer Krug under the solo guise of Moonface, is full of these kinds of songs. On the first few listens, that feeling of melancholic closure saturates the glacial bummer "Headed for the Door," with its seven-and-a-half-minute story-song of impossible love and spoken word outro. It's a classic "last song on the album" song, but not the last song. Somehow Krug keeps the momentum going after what feels like a good place to stop, and repeated listens to Heartbreaking Bravery reveal that strange talent is one of the album's defining characteristics. Krug traveled to Finland to record the album with onetime Wolf Parade tourmates Siinai, their expansive