Wolf Parade: Expo 86

Marching on Wolf Parade’s third studio LP attempts to straddle the ghostly and mesmerizing pop of their stellar debut Apologies to the Queen Mary and the sprawling, fuzzed-out prog of followup At Mount Zoomer. The Montreal quartet is mostly successful in this balancing act, delivering a handful of thematically-obtuse pop missiles heavy on reverb and guitar, with trademark synths still lurking low in the mix. There’s plenty of Queen Mary-esque verve and vigor; “Palm Road” is a delightfully skuzzy guitar-rocker buoyed by straight-outta-DEVO Casio lines, and “Pobody’s Nerfect” is Wolf Parade in fighting trim—a cacophony of gritty guitar, Moog, rumbling...  read more

Wolf Parade's Upcoming Third LP Gets a Name

It’s yet to be determined whether Wolf Parade’s upcoming release will be a double album or a single LP, but at least it has a name. Expo 86 is the next offering from the Montreal maximalists....  read more