A prolific creator of dramatic, imaginative indie rock, the Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Spencer Krug is possibly best known as a member of the Montreal-formed act, Wolf Parade. However, under a cavalcade of guises -- such as Sunset Rubdown and Moonface -- Krug has remained an original voice across two decades, delivering a commitment to melody and production texture in a characteristically off-kilter fashion. On the release of the final Moonface album -- 2018's This One’s for the Dancer This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet -- Krug announced that his future solo endeavors would be issued under his own name. The arrival of 2021's Fading Graffiti -- a record awash with pedal steel -- showed Krug to be true to his promise.

Born in 1977 -- in Penticton, British Columbia -- Krug taught himself piano, and then guitar, as his teens progressed. On moving to Victoria, he formed the band Frog Eyes, with his roommate Carey Mercer, only sticking around to contribute to that act's 2002 debut LP, The Bloody Hand. Next, he headed to Montreal to study at Concordia University, forming Wolf Parade there with Dan Boeckner in 2003. That same year, they supported a pre-Funeral Arcade Fire, before issuing their acclaimed 2005 Sub Pop album, Apologies to the Queen Mary. This was a busy period, also seeing Krug form Sunset Rubdown and contribute to the instrumental, sole album by Fifths of Seven, alongside Beckie Foon and Rachel Levine. In 2006, he rejoined Frog Eyes for two records, before forming Swan Lake with Dan Bejar of Destroyer fame, and Mercer. The indie supergroup followed that year's Jagjaguwar LP, Beast Moans, with the more accessible Enemy Mine, in 2009, before disbanding. It was during this period that Sunset Rubdown also stopped being a going concern, but Krug did not make this clear until 2012, when he relocated to Helsinki, putting Wolf Parade on hiatus in the process.

After debuting the Moonface name in 2010, it became his primary moniker for much of the decade. For a large part of Moonface's recorded canon, he teamed up with Siinai, both before and after leaving Finland in 2014. Within a couple of years of being back in Canada, Wolf Parade regrouped, making their comeback with a self-titled EP. Two further Wolf Parade long-players followed on Sub Pop, 2017's Cry Cry Cry and 2020's Thin Mind. During that time, the final Moonface album saw him part ways with Jagjaguwar. It was a label he'd worked with, on and off, for 13 years, but he'd grown tired of the traditional release model, which often dictated a 12-month gap between recording music and its release. Instead, in 2019, he opted for a "direct-to-consumer" approach, giving fans paid access to fresh songs within hours. In turn, early piano-based versions of tracks that ultimately comprised Fading Graffiti were debuted on the service. The completed set saw wider distribution in April 2021 on his own Pronounced Kroog label. ~ James Wilkinson, Rovi