Kissing the Beehive, due June 17th on SubPop

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49...tle-is-terrible


I'm understandably wet.

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I believe this song, which I think is actually called "Things I Don't Know" is on the new album. It's a fucking great track, life too. They've been playing it for a long time.

A lot of the live stuff they played that was new featured a lot of acoustic guitar, but in a heavy, rocking sort of way.

Spencer Krug has said that they're trying to keep the record as "pop" as possible, and people who have seen the most recent tour have claimed the new songs are the best thing Spencer has written for ANY BAND HE'S BEEN IN (HOLY SHIT?).

The album has been done for months, SubPop is just being a bunch of bitches and holding it for promotional shit. Hopefully that means a speedy leak.

TO INFINITY, AND BEYOND.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pitchfork is right about the album title... but ya I want this.

Bullshit. Apologies to the Queen Mary? Shut Up I Am Dreaming? Random Spirit Lover? Plague Park? What was anyone expecting?

It's genius wrapped in enigma.

I'm with Chrono. I am too excited for this.

Really excited for this as well. Apologies was my favorite album of 05.

I don't think I've ever enjoyed hearing new songs from a band more than the last time I seen Wolf Parade.

This is gonna be supercalifragilisitilcnlasdfklnasd.

I probably haven't been more excited about anything ever

definitely one of my favorite new bands... i hope they have some horns on this record. i'm not sure why, but i hear horns when i imagine the new record.

There will be no horns

i know... but there should be.

WOOOOOOO
best news i've heard all week, SERIOUSILLY

btw, pitchfork would make a remarkably retarded article based on the title of the album instead of saying how it will fuck everybody so good they will be left panting

Middle Class Haunt - Wolf Parade & Subtle
http://www.savefile.com/files/1146756

Every Road (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3
Desert Song (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3
Telephone (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3
Nature of the Game (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3
Radio Song (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3
Fine Young Cannibals (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3
Long Song (Live)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/6/8557...g)%20(Live).mp3



TELL ME, WHERE DID YOU GO?

so are all of these confirmed as tunes from the new record? good quality? soundboard? montana?

Oh wow.

Thank you.

Yeah, they're all album tunes. Not great quality, not terrible either. Gives you a rough idea of what's going on.

And it's wonderous.

Nature of the Game

i refuse to pop my new album cherry on something other than FLAC

Um, yeah, these are the same people raving about "Street Horrrrrrrsing" by FUCK BUTTONS.

... and Man Man's "Rabbit Hats" and Jay Reatard and HLLLYH and Liferz and...

GOOD, THESE TRACKS ARE FOR TRU FANZ ANYWAY

Every Road

great news fo sho.

fuck you pitchfork.

maybe they'll end up with a lolla slot this year. hmmmmmmm

Not excited, I don't know why. I used to love Wolf Parade, I guess I listened to it too much and got sick of it.

I tried, I really did.
It;s not that I have a problem with "ugly" vocals.
I just cant, for the life of me, believe that he's not pretending and that that voice isnt a complete and total affectation.
Sounds fake as fuck to me, and not in that way that vocals generally are.

i can't say i'm jumping out of my skin for this one, but i'll be very curious to hear it. apologies was definitely in my top 5 of 2005. LP2 needs to prove that they're no fluke before i get really gaga over these gents.

EPs/live show/side projects already proved that.

^i dunno, the live clips i've seen of theirs didn't leave me that impressed. and fuck a side project, although it may reveal these dudes talent, handsome furs and sunset rubdown really say very little about the capacity of wolf parade: the band.

I like Sunset Rubdown a whole lot. I like Handsome Furs just fine. I liked the first Wolf Parade album.

The news of this new album, however, does not really excite me a whole lot for some reason. I guess because when I saw them a few years back and they played some new material, it really didn't impress me that much. I dunno. I'm sure it'll be all good, though.

Don't you worry chron-tron. I'll probably be jizzing loads when this leaks/drops as well. Sunset Rubdown = fantastic. Apologies to the Queen = wonderful. Handsome furs...well, what ever. Swan Lake, is great sometimes.

that doesn't explain anything, but I am quite excited to hear this.

Swan Lake sucked all the time

I'm sorry

I hated on that album for months and months after it's extremely disappointing release. I've come to see it as a "mood" album. with the right headphones, with the right surrounding, I can really get into a few tunes on there.

eh, I guess because I hate Dan Bejar, it's tough for me to get in to the album

Spencer Krug can only do so much

Lets turn this into a frog eyes thread.


hey, what do you guys think of that frog eyes band, huh?

i do not like them, as well

At first I thought they were kinda cool when I saw them. Then after about two songs, I realized I had enough. The voice is too grating for me. Plus the singer looks a lot like Louie Anderson.

Yeah, I've seen Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown live, and I can say that Krug's vocals sound a whole lot more affected on record than they do live. But that is really his most natural singing voice. It is not a put-on. The first Wolf Parade album really exaggerated them, but the Sunset Rubdown albums are less produced in that regard.

I also really dig the Handsome Furs album...a lot more than Swan Lake.

This album is going to be great, and all the haters are just saying the same vague indie-hating pre-release backlash bullshit.

If you think the band is lame, and you don't want to talk about them, find another thread.

wow, why are you being so defensive?!

Killer Parties is secretly Dan Boeckner

Umm...cuz we're talking about music. Duh.

Serious business, people.

[none of that was meant to come off as that serious]

edit: plus, as an unapologetic fan of the band, it seems that everyone hates 'em these days, so I gotta get all protective.

At least we can reach a detente on the universal importance and luminescence of Elizabeth Banks.

"All Fires" guys.

I use this signature to make people agree with me.



...and, "All Fires" rules.

Great band

Mercifully, Kissing the Beehive was another bullshit title a la Pardon My Blues, courtesy of Boeckner, who seems to get off on giving out fake album titles. It's doesn't have a name yet.

Sub Pop press release:


Wolf Parade LP2 - SP720

Recorded and engineered by drummer Arlen Thompson, this is Wolf Parade’s second album for Sub Pop. Their first, Apologies to the Queen Mary, came out in the fall of 2005 and was described by Uncut magazine as, “frequently appealing.�

Singer/guitarist Dan Boeckner: “After Apologies… we wrote about four or five new songs, but we decided to throw them out because they sounded too much like what we’d already done. We could have easily made another Apologies… but what would have been the point?â€� Instead, the band committed itself to a period of experimentation, recording long improvisational sessions in the Montreal church owned by The Arcade Fire. These tracks were then cut and pasted into discrete compositions. The result is a complex matrix of components and modules that, thanks to the collective efforts of each band member, never feels labored or fussy. From the nimble opening strains of “Soldier’s Grinâ€� to the eleven-minute aggro dirge of “Kissing the Beehive,â€� they hand authority of the songs around among them with a refreshing absence of ownership. Where Apologies… could be read as a good-natured, sweaty volleyball match between Boeckner and singer/keyboardist Spencer Krug, the new album shows the band as a fully coordinated moving front. This collaboration isn’t just a work ethicâ€â€�the band’s many offshoots, side projects, and domestic ventures have taken each of them far from their home base in Montreal for extended periods, compressing their time as a functioning unit. “It’s hard enough to get us all in the same room at the same time,â€� Krug said of the band’s approach, “so when we do get to write songs there isn’t really time for our egos to get in the way.â€�

The legion of bearded, sweater-vested critics will want to file this album under â€ËÅ“Prog Rock’ because it doesn’t offer up sugary cast-offs for the short-attention-span set, but no one ever danced to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. It might instead be this generation’s Marquee Moon, or an indie rock Chinese Democracy released thirty years early and sixty million dollars under budget (and without cornrows, to boot). Better, though, to think of it as the sound of a band edging forward into a wispy darkness, one hand reaching out, the other firmly clutching the past.

Released: 2008-06-17 (CD), 2008-06-17 (LP)

TRACKS

1. Soldier's Grin
2. Call It a Ritual
3. Language City
4. Bang Your Drum
5. California Dreamer
6. The Grey Estates
7. Fine Young Cannibals
8. An Animal in Your Care
9. Kissing the Beehive

Whoa...

Listen to a track here (well, part of a track) - "Call It A Ritual"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=89528513

not sure how feel about a proggy wolf parade and all, still i'm glad these guys are finally putting out a second album

Is it June 17th yet?

awesome

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