Wolf Parade
 

Excellent band from our (and by our, I'm assuming you live in the United States of Jesusland) neighbors up North. Their debut, Apologies To The Queen Mary, is a very fun, Modest Mouse-y (produced by Isaac Brock, even), rock album. One of my favorites of the year so far.

Any fans?

To be compleatly honest, I had never herd of Wolf Parade until last Sunday when they played during the Arcade Fire show that I was at. From the brief introduction that I got there though I am interested in looking further into them. Any perticualr songs that you would reccomend?

"You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son"
"I'll Believe In Anything"
"Modern World"
"We Built Another World"

My favorites off the album.

I think that I recognize some of those. At the very least I distictly remember "You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son" and you're right, it was very amazing. The others I will look into right away.

Yay for Wolf Parade. Explitive Deleted you are an awesomer. CYHSY, BSS and WP are all in my top 5 this year too. since you obviously like good music i might check out the others...

also i really recommend "dinner bells" its one of my favourites

Yayay yay, Wolf Parade, Just Introduced to them a few weeks back, it's production is Crazy as hell. the lyrics are put far back, so you sort of lean into the song, innovative to say the least,

and the way they move and the way they move and the way they move their hands!

Saw them live on the 3rd, great show and a great way to start off the new year. Best live show I've seen behind EitS.

just got into them too - I agree they sound like Modest Mouse. Have 'You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son' on high rotation now even i like it so much...

confused!?
 

Ok, I don't know whats wrong with me. I've heard wolf parade being compared to many bands, and I like all these bands. However I just don't find them that good. Why, and anyone tell me. The lyrics are fine and I get how its got an accessable feel to the album and certain songs are simple and easy to get around the first time like singles, but again they just don't sound great to me. One of those bands you don't like for me, yet for the life of you could not explain why.

they aren't very 'catchy' - best I can come up for ya MrFloyd....

Wolf Parade -excelleeeent. A friend sent me a song and I then I went and found some more, but my favorite song is It's a Curse.

From the top of the mountain
To the rock and sand
Drive a dead farther west
Til' they ran out of land
We walked five whole minutes
To the dark edge of town
Took a long look at nothing
And turned back around

Wolf Parade are pretty good. Remind me of the Arcade Fire a little, not the least of which is because they're both indie bands from Montreal. But yeah they're cool. Shine a Light is my favourite song of theirs.

just got arround to downloading this, i like it a lot....very arcade fireish ( i don't know modest house so can't compare )

I do hope 2006 isn`t the year of the arcade fire tribute band.

I must have heard about 5 already

hello everybody i am new to this broadband scene i am huge music fan and flicking through this forum i noticed your discussion on wolf parade I think their new is fairly good my favourite songs on the album would be shine a light and my hearts on fire! has anyone any opinions on interpol have you heard them?

yeah, i'm really loving the wolf parade album lately....btw, it's rather strange to ask if anyone likes interpol in a wolf parade thread.....plenty people like interpol, you can find the threads about interpol by using the search function ( at the top of the page )

adidasss, made me download some and he said he'd check out say anything. Suprisingly I liked it alot..Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts is my favorite song so far.

Years begin and end with summer. what happens up until june gets derailed with the "summer time jam" which usually makes me want to snap a windpipe, but I agree, aracde fire is bad enough, I don't want to hear the followers.

Arcade Fire aren't "bad," and if Wolf Parade's first show wasn't opening for AF nobody would even be making that comparison. Besides the fact that the similarities are slight at best, Wolf Parade are 10 times better.

actually, i was making the comparison based on the guys style of singing, and the music ain't that far off either.....and, sorry, but they're really not better than arcade fire....for that to be true, i would have to love every track on the album, which i don't....

Well let's see here, Wolf Parade released one of the best albums of last year, while The Arcade Fire released one of the most overrated of the year before... Hmmm...

And I don't like every song on Wolf Parade's album either, but Funeral's weak middle section brings down an already only-slightly-better-than-average album.

you're beyond elitist

You know what my problem with you is adidasss? Everytime you disagree with me it suddenly becomes "You're an elitist, everything you say is bull. I'm right, you're just a prick." Is everyone you disagree with suddenly an elitist, or is it just me?

And can you maybe try and argue that statement?

fine, if you're gonna force me to rationalise every goddamn statement i make, i just have a feeling that you judge bands based on their popularity, if an indie band is really good and therefore becomes a bit more popular than your average indie crap, i feel like you'll like them less because they're no longer obscure, and listening to obscure unnknown artists gets you off....that's all.....and i suppose i have a problem with people who don't listen to a single mainstream band, it seems a bit off that from all the good , more popular bands none of them suite your music taste....i don't give that much shit to other people because they do like other mainstream bands....you seem to be the only one talking shit about every goddamn mainstream indie band....

Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Jesus, just because I dislike a "mainstream" indie band I'm suddenly an elitist? Yeah, even though I disliked them from when all the indie blogs started raving about them I must dislike them because they're popular.

All I've ever seen you do on here is insult some of the best indie bands (not to mention indie itself, because apparently not being a slave to a major label = bad, and anyone who likes a lot of "obscure" Indie bands is an elitist who hates all music that isn't by some unknown band from bumfuckville, Ohio), and rave about the most overrated, or "popular", ones.

It's kind of funny that you hate Indie elitists who "hate" mainstream music when you seem to hate Indie just as much.

you haven't exactly rebutted anything i said. yes, you're an elitist BECAUSE you dislike EVERY mainstream band, i think that's the definition of elitism in music. i don't dislike indie, because as you and i know, indie isn't really a genre and i listen to a lot of indie bands, who actually get a bit of press....eeekk!! you seem to have a one track mind when it comes to music, any exposure=bad music. and this is also something i don't get about you, which in turn frustrates me, it's that you for instance, like moving units and les savy fav and yet dislike franz ferdinand even though anyone can tell that both of the aforementioned bands are watered down versions or the ugly brother of franz. or you like EITS and think it's orgasmic, yet Sigur Ros is boring even though objectively, it's bigger and more monumental. Wolf parade has one of the best albums of last year, yet arcade fire, a kindred band, is not even close.....your inconsistency is what bothers me, and the only thing i can conclude is going on , is that you're deliberately going against the grain, so if a lot of people like a certain band=bad bad bad....that's just how i feel about your music taste, because even the biggest indie kids on this block like some mainstream from time to time....

Wow.

I don't dislike every mainstream band, which you'd probably realize if you stopped reading my posts and morphing them into whatever you want them to say. I've said in the past that I do like a lot of "mainstream" bands, but you only ever want to listen to what you want to hear, which is that I'm an elitist and I hate everything.

Oh, and you said this about indie music...

And then this...

*which is funny, because Franz aren't Indie.

And then this...

Anyone seeing a pattern? By the way, he said all of that in ONE thread, about Belle & Sebastian, who last I checked were pretty famous and still one of my favorite bands (along with Spoon, the kings of borderline-mainstream Indie Rock).

First off, I do like Franz Ferdinand. Second, Les Savy Fav are so much better than Franz I can't even fucking believe you just made that comparison. Jesus Christ. Les Savy Fav are a Post-Hardcore/Emo Art Punk band, and Franz are a Gang of Four ripoff.

Sigur Ros are not "bigger" or "more monumental" then EitS. As usual, you really have no idea what you're talking about. Sigur Ros use the same boring song structure and same simple chord changes in all of their songs. Sigur Ros' music always gives the appearance of being some great, epic song before you listen to it a few more times and realize it's just smoke and mirrors.Their music gets boring and blends together after a few brief listens, and while you complain about EitS taking too long to "build up," Sigur Ros never do. They're a lesser version of far better Post-Rock bands (including EitS). Explosions in the Sky, on the other hand, are absolutely amazing, and since we're busy making assumptions about each other, I bet if I didn't like EitS as much as I do you wouldn't dislike them as much as you do.

Kindred? Give me a break. I like The Arcade Fire. I do. I never said I didn't. But everything they've done is obscenely overrated, and not even by people who enjoy "mainstream". They're overrated by everybody, ESPECIALLY people who listen to Indie.

Yeah yeah, just because I don't share opinions with everyone who reads Pitchfork and hates commercial music and all that bull, I MUST be "deliberately going against the grain." Please, just because I can form my own opinions and they don't always agree with whatever my fellow "Indie kids" think, doesn't mean I'm doing it "on purpose."

well, that's just the impression i got, when you start talking about mainstream music, i'll notice it more....and name some mainstream bands that you really really like....go on, then i'll back off forever...
franz aren't indie? i beg to differ, domino is still an independant label as far as i know...


your point? i still stand by everything i said....there are a few indie ( and by indie,i mean "hard core" indie ) bands i like, but on a whole....

how can you say you like a band and then say something else is so much better, i like my bands equaly, if i just "like" them, i'll say they're allright, but i wont be buying their album.....is that the kind of like you're talking about?


ok, everything you say about EITS and sigur ros is your opinion, so i wont delve into it further, but seriously, i don't dislike EITS because you like them, if you think about it, i check out anything you recommend and then base my judgement on them, i went to check out EITS because you said they were realy good, and i didn't like them, i checked out wolf parade, and can't get enough of them, that should be proof enough that i don't discriminate. my problem isn't with the bands you like, you like a lot of good bands i'm sure, i just get a little crazy when you criticise bands you don't like....



fine......

on a seperate note, this thread was meant for you, but i'm guessing you didn't read it....( shows that i respect you if you didn't notice )

Thats only in Europe , as far as i`m aware they`re on Sony for the rest of the world.

Not that it should make any difference to the quality of the music

The Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Eels, Radiohead, plenty of Britpop, etc. Or are those bands still too "Indie" for you?

What Urban said, they're distributed by Sony here.

My point was that you said you liked Indie, when it's pretty clear to me that you don't like Indie bands unless they're semi-famous.

I've never met anyone who liked every band they listened to "equally." I don't see how it's strange to like some bands more than others.

Fair enough, it just seems to me that you take every chance you can to criticize bands I like, but you get so offended when I do the same to you.

Wolf Parade is damn good, but I still would rather listen to the four or so songs off Funeral that I liked.

Explosions in the Sky>>>Sigur Ros.

I still havent come around to Franz. I got turned off from the very beginning, so I'm a bit skeptical to look into their most recent work. Les Savy Fav, I think, are much better. And Moving Units? Far better than both. The comparison is there, but M.U. can be a lot more electro wave-ish when they want to be.

:eek: BLASPHEMY! Moving Units are nowhere near as good as LSF.

I wouldn't bother if I were you, they aren't up to much.

They`re not that bad really.

Better than the Arctic Monkeys album anyway

So, Wolf Parade thread hasn't been bumped since 2006...RIP

I quite liked their first two albums and hated Expo 86.

Just spinning Cry Cry Cry, the new album, for the first time.

I've never heard of that, gonna check that out!

I think my favorite side project I've encountered so far is definitely Sunset Rubdown. They put out 2-3 very solid albums. I've also heard Swan Lake and Handsome Furs. Frog Eyes are great too, but I'm unsure where they overlap in terms of personnel.

Here is a chart that may contain other side projects, but there may be a few weak links (like one album of shared credits).

https://i.imgur.com/RvlSV5U.png

I can't say I've been listening to anything similar lately.

But here are some random stuffs I have enjoyed recently:

Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion

Also, on Wolf Parade.

Their first album is really great. It's an art rock album with a lot of forward momentum. Listen to this one first if you are just stumbling on this thread!




With At Mount Zoomer they really opened up their style, and they get great results on a number of tracks, but it's too ambitious to not be bloated with filler. I think I admire the album more than I enjoy listening to it. I was obsessed with it when it came out but I've grown to prefer their debut.

For this website I use:

https://www.musicbanter.com/usercp.php

It's in the top left corner too.

This keeps track of threads you have participated in by default.

Wolf Parade is just a step above Greta Van Fleet.