NATURE OF THE PACK Wolf Parade
Nov 19, 2008
Lupine howls and standing tall at the foot of Mount Zoomer.
BY HAL BIENSTOCK
Ever since their 2006 debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, sent Wolf Parade into the upper echelon of indie rock, fans have been clamoring for a new album. Yet it seemed like the band members were more interested in their solo projects-whether keyboardist Spencer Krug's Sunset Rubdown or guitarist Dan Boeckner's Handsome Furs.
Bockener says he and Krug were working on Wolf Parade songs the whole time, but just never got around to recording them. Finally, the band decided to isolate itself in the Arcade Fire's studio outside of Montreal and get to work. "We didn't know anyone out there, so we stayed up all night eating barbecue meat and getting the songs to a point where we could record them without screwing them up," he says.
The result of all that meat-fueled isolation is At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop), which finds Wolf Parade shifting from a band with two leaders into a cohesive unit. If Apologies sounded like a tug-of-war between the different styles of Krug and Boeckner, At Mount Zoomer is the sound of them finding new ways to complement one another. "Spencer keeps me from writing updated versions of Tom Petty songs and I reign in his proggy Deerhoof sort of stuff," Boeckner explains. "There used to be more conflict about that, but now we know each other so well and have played together enough that it just comes naturally."
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