Apologies to the Queen Mary | 
 enlarge | Artist: Wolf Parade
Label: P-Vine Japan
Category: Music
List Price: $40.98
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Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 786190
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4995879237090
ASIN: B000ALJ0W8
Release Date: September 26, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son | | • | Modern World | | • | Grounds For Divorce | | • | We Built Another World | | • | Fancy Claps | | • | Same Ghost Every Night | | • | Shine a Light | | • | Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts | | • | I'll Believe in Anything | | • | It's a Curse | | • | Dinner Bells | | • | This Heart's on Fire |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
On first listen, Wolf Parade is just another Canadian buzz band that plays fun, keyboard-heavy, new wave-y indie-rock and sings in weird, affected, high-pitched tones. Upon further listening, the songs reveal a lot of strange and fuzzy little details, and the lyrics have more depth than most bands do on their debuts. The Montreal-based group was brought to the Seattle-based Sub Pop label's attention by none other than Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, modern rock radio's king of affected vocalizings. Brock even recorded much of the album in Portland, OR. The vocalist has more than a passing affinity for David Bowie, and if you love the Arcade Fire and Frog Eyes, you probably are already a fan. Apologies is a very fun debut; the studied strangeness of the singing grates less over time, and it'll be really interesting to see what they come up with next. -Mike McGonigal
Album Description
This Montreal band has toured with the likes of Modest Mouse and The Arcade Fire, they played last year's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in California, self-released two limited edition EPs, and have a song (a cover of Frog Eyes' "Claxxon's Lament") on The Believer magazine's recent covers comp. Time magazine picked "Apologies..." as one of "Canada's Most Anticipated Indie Albums Of The Year". Expect to see and hear much more from Wolf Parade.
Album Description
Japanese pressing of 2005 album adds 2 bonus tracks 'Disco Sheets' & 'Modern World'. 14 tracks. P-Vine.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fantastic CD by excellent band! August 27, 2008
J. Riddle (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
I liked this band immediately upon hearing them 3 years ago or so. Their sound does invoke Modest Mouse/Talking Heads at times, if you enjoy those bands you will surely love this. In my view this is one of the best new bands of the last several years, just wish they where a bit more prolific.
Great album July 31, 2008
Henry Hall
This album is replete with highly infectious and original melodies, beautiful & contemplative imagery, and pleasantly jolting rhythms. Each song progresses at its own pace to become more than it starts off as, making this an album I would recommend to anyone who enjoys well-put-together music.
 Enjoyable, quirky indie rock December 26, 2007
Usuallee (Tampa, Fl)
This is a pretty solid album and "Shine a Light" & "We Built Another World" & "Fancy Claps" are really great songs. There are two alternating lead singers which are both good. They are talented musicians and seem to have a lot of interesting ideas musically, & have a likeable quirkiness to them.
I actually came to amazon looking for a follow up disc from Wolf Parade, hopefully there will be one soon!
Bandwagon jumping never sounded so good July 19, 2007
A. Liebling (Long Island City, NY United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Besides a few interesting surprises, these guys are a tried n' true Modest Mouse/Arcade Fire clone. I'm not sure yet if that's a good or bad thing. I guess it depends on my alcohol consumption.
Some tunes are more herky-jerky and indie-dance-punky than others, but check out "Grounds for Divorce." All it needs is a quirky stop-motion video, and these guys will be huge.
Good Tunes July 9, 2007
K. Andry (Tampa, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like this album. My only thing is that the songs that are hits on this album are the best songs, and there's only 3 or 4 of those. They rocked, but the whole album isn't solid. I would still buy this cd over and over though.
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