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Swan Lake performs "All Fires"

The Canadian indie rock scene is so incestuous and fertile that we’re now seeing a second wave: supergroups spawned out of supergroups. Tracing lineages of these Maple Leaf-flying bands can be an unwieldy headache (three words: Broken Social Scene) but lemme try to break down Swan Lake: Vancouverite Dan Bejar is the sole center of Destroyer who became the “secret member” of the New Pornographers. Fellow B.C.-band Frog Eyes, founded by Spencer Krug and Carey Mercer, backed him as Destroyer for an album. Of course, Krug went on to form Sunset Rubdown and is a member of the feted Montreal band Wolf Parade. Now Bejar, Krug and Mercer are together as an even more super supergroup, Swan Lake. Are you tired yet? Me? I feel like Matt Pinfield. So Swan Lake has fittingly issued their debut on the Indiana-based weird beard label Jagjaguwar, itself an offshoot of Secretly Canadian, known for stuff even hairier, more experimental and out there than independent flagships Merge, Matador and Sub Pop. Swan Lake’s inspired meanderings fit that bill. The songs here don’t match up to Bejar’s usual, clever, word-flipping, baroque glam or the best of Krug’s jerking rhythmic abstractions and daydreams, but are entertaining as such side projects of side projects go. Consistency is key and if the members are Swan Lake are not consistently great, they are consistently interesting.