Wolf Parade has finally leaked the first song from their second album. The album itself still remains untitled but has been on everyone's mind since the release of the bands debut album, Apologies To The Queen Mary, which left the indie-rock scene jumping ecstatically over tracks such as "I'll Believe in Anything" and "Shine a Light". Though the album was a huge success the band does not feel the need to repeat themselves. Boecknar, the guitarist, explains their thinking surrounding the new album:
“After Apologies… we wrote about four or five new songs but we decided to throw them out because they sounded too much like what we’d already done. We could have easily made another Apologies… but what would have been the point?”
The band with what little time it had, trying to work around all the members side projects (Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Handsome Furs, Swan Lake), set themselves up in Arcade Fire's church in Montreal where they recorded long streams of improvisation and then cut them into individual tracks. The album itself was subsequently mixed and engineered by drummer Arlen Thompson who's main goal was to limit the amount of effects added in the studio, thus giving the album a rawer sound than their previous record as well as offering the listener a chance to hear every discrete limb of the song. While Apologies to Queen Mary was the result of Boecknar and singer/keyboardist Spencer Krug messing around together, the new album strongly utilizes each members individual ability creating an unpampered yet rich cosmic sound. Matthew Derby writes on Sub-Pop records about this new experiment of Wolf Parade's:
"The legion of bearded, sweater-vested critics will want to file this album under ‘Prog Rock’ because it doesn’t offer up sugary cast-offs for the short-attention-span set..."
Well said. The album will be released June 17th on Sub-Pop even though it still remains nameless.
Download:
Wolf Parade - Call It A Ritual
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