Oh they've already published their new album's title. I'm eager to listen to it as soon as possible and hope it will be as strong as their debut album but what is it?: 'Dan followed up with "There’s a more Marxist collective-style collaboration on Pardon My Blues...the weeks of isolation have made Wolf Parade like a man who lives in a cabin in the woods penning letters to God with dirt and tree sap... "Crazy Horse" is like a 12 minute song that sounds vaguely like Slayer." Slayer??
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Originally posted by sans_success: Just a quick note: can't we change the title of this thread to reflect the correct title? Just thinking that we should change it to "Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer" right?
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Well finally. Spencer Krug has done a lot of side projects, but I haven't liked anything as much as Wolf Parade's debut. Hopefully this will top 'Apologies'.
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Krug's stuff has just gotten better since Apologies... His work with Swan Lake produced two perfect pop songs, and his latest Sunset Rubdown album is a classic. Krug's first Sunset Rubdown record was like a more artistic Wolf Parade, and his keyboards were one of the many highlights off the latest Frog Eyes release.
All of that in mind, I've lately turned to Krug's more recent stuff when I've been in the mood for that style of music. Apologies... , for me, has been reduced to mixtape fodder, as good as it is.
The early word about Pardon My Blues seems to suggest it's pointing as far forward as Krug's latest work. Maybe it will be his best yet...
Oh, and Dan Boeckner is no slouch lately, either. Handsome Fur's Plague Park was a highlight from 2007, for sure.
i saw wolf parade play at the end of last summer (or beginning of the fall), and, as a result, i'm actually not getting my hopes up for this release. the new songs, while fine overall, don't really stack up (at least in a live performance) to the songs on Apologies. they weren't bad. they just weren't that great either. one thing became pretty evident though (to me, at least)...spencer krug is definitely the better songwriter. in terms of the new material, i didn't really like any of dan boekner's (sp?) songs, whereas spencer krug's were pretty solid. i definitely preferred krug's songs on Apologies, but i still liked quite a few of boekner's as well.
i think that, more than anything, it was a really uninspiring performance. i had seen them before and thought it was a really rockin' show. not the case this time around.
I dunno, though - whenever I see a band live their new stuff kind of blends together and I don't remember it nearly as well as the songs that I've been anticipating and can sing along with. I can't really judge a new song until I've heard it from the studio.
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I think the next album will be percieved very different from Apologies simply because we know Dan and Spencer now. Last time they were so unknown. The biggest connection I had to them was that the drummer was from Hot Hot Heat. Dan and Spencer were like my brother's really cool friends that would come visit and just seem totally awesome and unreachable. Now I feel like Dan and Spencer are close friends of mine.
I think the next album will be much stronger technically, and have a lot of great musical moments, but it will lack a lot of the immediacy and intrigue of their first. I wish I could go back to the day when I didn't even realize there were two different people singing the songs. Not to mention the fact that I can now tell who wrote which lyric, and is playing which melody.
I am going to stay away from all leaks and live youtube recordings until I can listen to the whole album myself. I think it helps in these situations. Last year I was set up for disapointment with The National, Arcade Fire, and Okkervil River. I just assumed they would blow me away and listened to them for the first time straight through, on a good stereo, while exploring someplace I've never been before.
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Originally posted by Shadrach: I think the next album will be percieved very different from Apologies simply because we know Dan and Spencer now. Last time they were so unknown. The biggest connection I had to them was that the drummer was from Hot Hot Heat. Dan and Spencer were like my brother's really cool friends that would come visit and just seem totally awesome and unreachable. Now I feel like Dan and Spencer are close friends of mine.
Originally posted by Shadrach: I think the next album will be much stronger technically, and have a lot of great musical moments, but it will lack a lot of the immediacy and intrigue of their first. I wish I could go back to the day when I didn't even realize there were two different people singing the songs.
I was actually thinking about this recently. I was the same way - I had no idea that it was 2 different people singing until I'd listened to the album quite a bit. In fact, I knew absolutely nothing about Wolf Parade, besides the fact that they're Canadian. This 'loss of intrigue' seems inevitable, though. Wolf Parade was one of the first bands that I listened to when I was getting into indie (I guess that goes to show just how recently that was). I remember thinking that it was strange music, but there was something that really drew me to it that I couldn't quite put my finger on. I kept listening, and I still didn't completely feel like I understood it. After I'd listened to it A LOT (I can be quite persistent), I finally felt like I understood the album. It was so exciting to me that there was all this music out there just waiting to be listened to that could potentially be equally rewarding. This is a feeling that I wish I could get back - that complete wide-eyed, kid-in-a-candy-shop feeling.
Originally posted by CoCoCo: This is a feeling that I wish I could get back - that complete wide-eyed, kid-in-a-candy-shop feeling.
Very true. It's hard to admit, but just a few short years ago, I would never have thought that statement could be applied to music. Of course, I also would have told you that Incubus was the best band ever. Or was it Metallica...or Our Lady Peace...or...
Then I decided to start actually learning about music. I gave most of my albums away and headed to the record shop. So there I was, in 2005, purchasing the first good album I ever owned, which happened to be The Soft Bulletin. After that it was like a dam bursting in musical form. For a good year or two there, I was literally pulling bands the likes of Tindersticks, Sebadoh, and The Microphones out of thin air, as if they never even existed in the years/decades before I stumbled upon them. Good times, to say the least.
On the bright side, there's no reason the next 50 years of music can't be just as good as the last. The only difference is, this time I'll be there to experience it firsthand instead of coming around decades later and trying to piece together the puzzle.
(by the way, I don't hate any of those bands I mentioned up top, just some examples of what I listened to when I was young, dumb, and still got my recommendations from a top 40 station)
EDIT: anybody know if there is/was a topic along the lines of "What got you into music?" or "What was your inspiration for making music more than just a hobby?", or something like that? Because if there isn't, that could be good for some worthwhile discussion.
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i know thats a good thing, id rather an amazing almbum that takes a year after their target rlease date than a rushed album so you dont "dissapoint" fans.
i remember wolf parade stated in october or november of 06 they would have it released by spring of 07. the summer of 07. then winter of 07. then march 07. now its slated for sometime this summer again.
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). I remember thinking that it was strange music, but there was something that really drew me to it that I couldn't quite put my finger on. I kept listening, and I still didn't completely feel like I understood it. After I'd listened to it A LOT (I can be quite persistent
), I finally felt like I understood the album. It was so exciting to me that there was all this music out there just waiting to be listened to that could potentially be equally rewarding. This is a feeling that I wish I could get back - that complete wide-eyed, kid-in-a-candy-shop feeling.
