Wolf Parade Record Anticipation & Appreciation Thread
Two songs have leaked off the imminent as yet untitled new record by Wolf Parade. You can get "Call It A Ritual" from Stereogum and you can get a shoddy rip of "California Dreamer" here--> http://www.mediafire.com/?iglcnld2ex2 Still eagerly waiting for album art too... Any further information you get should be posted here immediately! If you can't tell by now, I am on the edge of my seat waiting for this one. For me, it is the most anticipated release this year.

I think I'm not going to listen to the songs anymore. I think I need to wait for the album. I want to experience it all together... If I see any songs come out though, I'll post them here too! (and probably listen....)

so, word is this is leaking very very soon..... I'm excited. I hope it's good. I'm trying to keep my expectations lower because I prefer the individual parts over the sum so far, but it's a new album and a new day...... *fingers crossed*

Thanks to story --> http://www.merryswankster.com/archives/2008/04/the_new_wolf_pa.html

The official title is At Mount Zoomer. meh Have you guys heard the her space holiday cover of I'll believe in anything? It's pretty pretty good! :| Her Space Holiday @ Myspace

I'm good with the title and need to wait to hear the album before I judge, to see how it "fits", though I wish it was Kissing the Beehive.

Lardy, I love this album!

sooooo.... for the musically inclined, what is the time sigs on these songs? especially Kissing The Beehive? I saw someone write 9/8? is that right?

2 things... I asked SubPop why Ritual was the single choice and how the vinyl will be split... Call It A Ritual was the first ‘track’ released mainly because we were putting together a Sub Pop label sampler, wanted to include a new WP song, and, we hadn’t heard anything yet from the album; that’s what the band thought would make a good track for sampler. So, since it was on a sampler in mid April, it became the first mp3 released. Is it the ‘single’? Probably not. But, I’m not sure what IS a single really! It’s the rare album that really is an album these days. Vinyl will be 1-5, 6-9, yup…

^ You said two things... ?? But thanks for sharing that little tidbit. I did indeed get Call It A Ritual on the SubPop sampler I got on Record Store Day.

A long and fun interview with the whole band (the interviewer isn't the best, but the band is fucking hilarious). http://www.panpot.ca/features/renderInterview.php?id=68 here's the mp3 --> http://www.panpot.ca/mp3/wolf_parade_interview.mp3 (from the WP forum)

Pitchfork review is out if you are curious... http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51237-at-mount-zoomer Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer _{Rating: 7.7 Buy it from Insound Download it from Emusic Digg this article Add to del.icio.us Any proper insomniac can recite the consequences of a few frantic, sheet-twisting nights: lethargy gives way to elation, reason falters, your teeth start to throb, and a vague sense of uneasiness gradually mutates into weird, wild-eyed paranoia. Wolf Parade doesn't seem like a band that routinely logs its eight hours: Apologies to the Queen Mary, the group's 2005 debut, was riddled with allusions to sleeplessness, and its follow-up, At Mount Zoomer, is no less restless-- it's a fraught, expansive ode to being way too awake. "We're tired," vocalist/guitarist Dan Boeckner admits, voice defeated. "We can't sleep." While prepping At Mount Zoomer for release, the band reportedly promised Sub Pop "no singles," which-- no matter how attached you are to the notion of the LP as a singular document-- seems like a self-defeating vow. Paradoxically, for a statement of cohesion (take these tracks together, or don't take them at all), At Mount Zoomer is inherently disjointed, very much the product of two distinct, if exceptional, songwriters. Unluckily for Wolf Parade, the success of Boeckner and co-frontman Spencer Krug's side ventures (Handsome Furs and Sunset Rubdown, respectively) means their stylistic tics are now public information, and, as effectively as these dudes co-exist onstage, they're still singular creative forces. The band's resolve to enlarge and intensify itself-- At Mount Zoomer seems focused on skewing darker, on sounding nastier, more perilous, and less straightforward than its predecessor, with elaborate arrangements and, you know, no singles-- translates into a lot of proggy diddling (and, ironically, less theremin). The approach yields predictably mottled results: At Mount Zoomer is both captivating ("Call It a Ritual", "Language City", "California Dreamer") and a little bit exhausting. Recorded in Petite Église, the Quebec church owned by Arcade Fire, and produced by drummer Arlen Thompson, At Mount Zoomer is free from the influence of Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, who produced the bulk of Apologies. Lyrically, familiar themes abound: multiple allusions to funerals, cities, dreams, empty rooms, and things that mean nothing. Wolf Parade are uniquely skilled at skewering contemporary (see also: urban, digital, accelerated) culture, and these songs relay a sense of being stuck in the wrong spot at the wrong time-- it's a tense, tenuous place to live. "Soldier's Grin" opens with punchy keyboard and guitar, before Boeckner steps up to outline the scene: "In my head, there's a city at night," he sings, voice clear and desperate. Although the song's objectively optimistic, full of twittering synths and mewling guitars, it's also deeply anxious, and when Boeckner promises "what you know can only mean one thing" it seems pretty evident that that one thing's no good. "Call It a Ritual" is equally uneasy; Krug's quiet, opaque vocals are spectral and strange-- less piercing than Boeckner's, but way more atmospheric-- and the track descends into a dreamy, muddled haze that feels a little bit like sleepwalking. "California Dreamer", another Krug-penned cut, is epic in scope: Although it's only six minutes long, it's relentlessly squirmy, flitting from quiet, guitar-driven dirge to full-band throwdown. Whereas Apologies to the Queen Mary closed with an unimpeachable tract of songs, from "Shine a Light" on, At Mount Zoomer fizzles and sags after its sixth track-- the record's grueling backend culminates with the contentious, 11-minute "Kissing the Beehive", a stubbornly unmelodic finale marked by a mush of throbbing guitars and histrionic vocals (ironically, it's the only track that Krug and Boeckner co-wrote). At Mount Zoomer is fractured and spastic, and at times, the band's ambition eclipses its strengths. Still, there's something about Wolf Parade's fragility that's profoundly relatable, and the sense that the entire operation could fall apart at any second-- that we're all tottering on the brink of total dissolution-- is as thrilling as it terrifying. -Amanda Petrusich, June 17, 2008 MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/wolfparade}