Wolf Parade | 
 enlarge | Artist: Wolf Parade
Label: Sub Pop
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 48208
Format: Single, Ep
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 098787067828
EAN: 0098787067828
ASIN: B0009WV2YW
Release Date: July 12, 2005
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| • | Shine a Light | | • | You Are a Runner And I Am My Father's Son | | • | Disco Sheets | | • | Lousy Pictures |
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Album Description
This four-song EP is a taste of their debut full-length, "Apologies To The Queen Mary", slated for an October 2005 release. Montreal's foursome have opened for Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse, they've been name-checked in the New York Times, and their photo graced the first page of a Spin magazine piece on Montreal. The first two songs will appear on their debut, while the second two are non-LP tracks exclusive to this EP.
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 not what i expected April 20, 2006
Thatherton (Washington DC)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had heard they were hard rock, even heard them compared to Black Sabbath, but they are not. So I was disappointed. Lots of synth if you like that.
 Well worth having for the extra tracks November 29, 2005
almostcool (Lincoln, NE United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pretty much every year for the past five (and more, really), there's been at least one band hailing from Canada that has cracked through the consciousness of the indie rock world and made a huge name for themselves. Two years ago was Broken Social Scene and last year was The Arcade Fire, and if Wolf Parade can parlay the songcraft they show on this four song EP into an equally interesting full length to be released later this year, they might very well be the newest Canucks on everyone's tongue.
One of the most strange things about the group is how they manage to snag little bits of different musical styles (and even individual groups themselves) and pull them together into a short batch of songs that sound both familiar and new at the same time. On "Shine A Light," the group turns in a buzzy-synth indie rock track that jangles with a touch of a Modest Mouse feel (the group was brought to the attention of Sub Pop by Isaac Brock) while the lead singer has some of the same vocal intonations (and lazy drawl) of Beck. "You Are A Number" follows with a waltzing dirty organ track that stumbles along rhythmically before slathering on an equally gritty guitar melody.
"Disco Sheets" changes things up even more as the group cranks up the BPM and tosses a dance-punk entry on the pyre that chugs along raucously before breaking off into quiet segments that recall a synth-based Interpol before slamming things back home again. The album closes with "Lousy Pictures" and it's another cowbell-clanging, overdriven organ/guitar track that works just about perfectly alongside the howling vocals. In the end, the cheaply-priced four song, thirteen minute EP does just what it's supposed to in raising the excitement level for what the group will plop on the table next. At least we don't have long to wait.
(from almost cool music reviews)
Wolfy baby November 20, 2005
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
One of the more popular indie bands to emerge this year is Sub Pop's Wolf Parade. I heard rumblings about this band months before the "Wolf Parade" EP came out, allowing me to hear this energetic new fuzz-pop band.
It's certinly a good introduction for anyone who might be uncertain about this bands sound, letting them hear plenty of bang for their buck. And it's a good sound -- new wave synths laid over psychedelic fuzz, all dancey and most quite good.
It opens on a rather ordinary note, with a standard dancepunk vibe that quickly blossoms into a transcendant pop melody -- that's "Shine A Light." It's quickly followed by the bizarre "You Are A Runner, And I Am My Father's Son," an artier and less catchy song, made up of staccato bursts of percussion and synth, before sliding into chaos, then static. Wow.
"Disco Sheets" is a more fun song -- very new wave-retro, energetic and dancey, heavy on the synth and the handclaps. And finally the EP rounds off with another expansive fuzz song, bursting with exotic riffs and surreal dancepunk. Takes guts to do that kind of thing.
At first listen, "Wolf Parade" sounds a bit messy. The instrumentation doesn't instantly mesh together, so it sounds like it was just thrown together with whatever sounded cool. But listen to it again, and even a third time. Then those elusive melodies and intertwined instrumentals will start to emerge.
This EP displays what they can (and can't) do -- they excel at the messy fuzzpop, but the synthy dance sound should be avoided. It isn't bad, but it isn't great either. They are at their best when combining the fuzz guitar, almost invisible bass, and shimmering synths into one big mishmash, topped by vocals that I really can't decipher.
Imagine Modest Mouse doing dance music, or Franz Ferdinand trying the arty route. That's a description of the debut EP of Wolf Parade, giving listeners a taste of their debut album.
Wolf Parade: EP (Sub Pop) September 1, 2005
Young Music Reviewer (Boston, MA)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's rare to fine a concept in music set up in an EP. My concept of an EP is an introduction tro music that we don't know about. Arcade Fire did it. Brooklyn bands TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars have done it before. If only The Hold Steady has done it and I can get into them a lot sooner. Also, even for a CD like this, an EP can be made only because those listening to underground music may not stand their music, so they are introducing their music and seeing what you think. THEN they plan to release a full length, at the non-fans expense. In fact, from what I have heard, many may thank the fact that EPs were made.
I listened to this album, and it was obvious that this band wasn't going to please everyone, as well as Interpol has. Even on Sub Pop. Wolf Parade is for those who enjoy the likes of Franz Ferdinand, The Fever, The Hold Steady (of course) and Modest Mouse. Or just wondered what they sound like if they came together to form an Indie Supergroup with less than 5 members. with "Shine A Light", their sounds make it a little more easier on all of our expectations before it hits you with a song-of-the-year in underground songs "You Are A Runner" which is hte type of music that coined Franz Ferdiand since the music has a certain Modest Mouse-meets-Hot Hot Heat at their darkest hour feel to the song. The music also has a certain Tim Krashner feel to the music. "You Are A Runner" is accused of being one of the songs that messes up dance-rock, when the truth is this music needs no business being in any subgenre cubby. "Disco Sheets" is where Franz Ferdinand comes in with a sound as if a British Sea Power member took part. The truth is whenever a song is called dance-rock you had better crash those cymbals at the right time after those drums. "lousy Pictures" at 2:30 is where the music takes on sounding like sideshow bringing up a Fever-like feel making the entire experience on such an EP wonderous. it will keep any other person wishing that their were more to come. So the music is more feelgood, but doesn't fit the moniker accurately. In other words, Wolf Parade are a band doing just fine in music. They should be able to get along with indie hipsters and curious cats just fine.
(It is one of those EPs that gets you wishing for more sounds if another magazine doesn't accuse it for being intelligible and compared. I suggest iving that cd a purchase and another spin, eh?)
Rating: 7.5/10
 awesome August 30, 2005
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
this cd while not the best i have ever boght it is still a great cd for a band comein from a litle town in canada with a great start for fame
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