Canadian indie rock supergroup
Wolf Parade have announced details of their long-awaited second album. The follow up to the critically acclaimed
Apologies to the Queen Mary is titled
Kissing the Beehive and will be out in Australia June 14. (Three days earlier than the US no less!) The outfit have been on hiatus over the last few years as the Parade's duel frontmen pursue solo side projects; Spencer Krug with the baroque
Sunset Rubdown and Dan Boeckner with the minimalistic
Handsome Furs. Despite minor success in independent circles neither band has created quite the same buzz as from whence they came.
The record was put to tape/hard drive at the rural church studio belonging to friends The Arcade Fire. Recorded and engineered by Wolf Parade drummer Arlen Thompson (who, trainspotters, played the drums on Arcade Fire's seminal theme song 'Wake Up'), the band have apparently moved in a more 'prog' direction. Maybe Spencer was winning that arm wrestle. From
Subpop.com guitarist Boeckner says of the new album: "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?” Well...because it would've been really good? Nevermind.