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Wolf Parade Lift The Veil, Kiss The Beehive

14th April 2008 | by Aidan Williamson

The history of Wolf Parade has been a non-stop rush so far, but they promise with album number two, a lot more time has been injected into its birth and creation.

A tentative title of "Kissing the Beehive" has been given to album nombre deux, although when it was pointed out to Parade's keyboardist Spence Krug that their album would share a title with a book by Jonathan Carroll (no relation) he pensively replied "We didn't know that was the title of a book. We might have to change it, but we might not. And we'll have to make it clear that it's not [named] after his book. It's a complicated situation."

The genesis of Wolf Parade was brought about when Arcade Fire asked Krug to support them on tour back in 2003. He was given a 3-week deadline to form a band and record enough songs to support a tour. "We had no idea what we were doing," explains Krug "It kind of happened really quick. This [album] was a lot more, 'We'll do this ourselves and we'll do this slowly.' We realized we could do it on our own terms."

Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive tracklisting:

01.) Soldier's Grin
02.) Call It a Ritual
03.) Language City
04.) Bang Your Drum
05.) California Dreamer
06.) The Grey Estates
07.) Fine Young Cannibals
08.) An Animal in Your Care
09.) Kissing the Beehive