Wolf Parade

Side projects galore kept Wolf Parade apart for nearly three years, but the separation has only strengthened their collective creativity. Co-songwriters Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug mesh their contributions more cohesively here, flirting with the idiosyncrasies of their debut while molding them into spaced-out epics and moody jams. The influence of Modest Mouse still lingers, with playful piano plunks, whimsical whirrs and scatty guitar noodling. But an aching for the '70s lends some charismatic twists with the spacey Bowie-like "An Animal in Your Care" and the proggy "Kissing the Beehive."

Championed by Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, this Montreal band is the product of two
fiercely creative minds that come together in a beautiful mess. Singer-keyboardist Spencer
Krug delivers exuberantly spasmodic rants (see his side project Sunset Rubdown),
singer-guitarist Dan Boeckner tends toward more straightforward brooding yelps (see his
side project Handsome Furs), and their colleagues somehow hold it all together.... More >