Face Control, the second album by the Montreal duo Handsome Furs, draws inspiration from the politics of control. Life under constant surveillance. There is always someone on the lookout, mostly ourselves; we have slowly accepted and embraced self-monitoring, happily reporting our every thought and move to blogs, facebooks and myspaces. Handsome Furs is Dan Boeckner (who is also the vocalist and guitarist for Wolf Parade), and wife Alexei Perry. Dark and minimal while noisy and earnest, the point was to be as sparse and repetitive as possible with the help of little more than vocals, guitars, and a new drum machine.