{"id":13455,"date":"2017-02-15T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2017-02-24T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:03:21","slug":"wolf-parade-return-to-where-it-all-began-with-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/02\/15\/wolf-parade-return-to-where-it-all-began-with-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Parade return to where it all began with new EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a six-year break, BC-born\/Montreal-bred indie rockers Wolf Parade are returning to Victoria. For drummer Arlen Thompson (who was in the University Transfer program at Camosun in 1999, when he also penned some Nexus<\/i> articles), proximity and timing played a large part in the band reuniting, recording new material, and touring again after the release of their fourth self-titled EP in early 2016 (yes: fourth self-titled EP).<\/p>\n

\u201cFor quite a while everyone in the band was kind of spread over the four corners of the earth,\u201d says Thompson, who currently lives in Nanaimo. \u201cSpencer [Krug, keyboardist\/vocalist] lived in Finland and Dan [Boeckner, vocalist\/guitarist] lived in San Jose. Spencer moved back to the island, so now with three of us on the island it made sense that if we were going to do it, this would be a good time. Dan came out from Montreal and we just jammed a little bit and talked about a few things, and if we could do it again what we\u2019d want to change. Then we started making music again and it felt good so we decided to get back into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun alumnus Arlen Thompson (third from left) is returning to town with Wolf Parade (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the band members began playing in different bands in Victoria, it wasn\u2019t until they met in Montreal that their friendships and musical careers took off. After forming in 2003 in Montreal, Wolf Parade released a couple of EPs on their own before their first album, Apologies to the Queen Mary<\/i>, was released by Sub Pop Records in 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictoria is a great city to woodshed, to develop your thing,\u201d says Thompson, \u201cbut it\u2019s a really hard place to develop your career because you have to take the ferry every time you want to leave the island to play somewhere. Montreal is great because you\u2019ve got so many big cities close by: Toronto, New York, Boston, Philadelphia. In Montreal, when I first showed up, the city wasn\u2019t really happening. We had friends, the Arcade Fire, and we were playing shows with them and watched them really blow up. It was pretty amazing, and we watched that whole city transform in a lot of ways. We were in the right place at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolf Parade have put in years of hard work to make their new record, which they\u2019re looking to release this summer. They\u2019re also working with producer John Goodmanson, whose previous production credits include albums by Hot Hot Heat, Sleater Kinney, and Pavement in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a lot more grown-up from when we started, a lot more experienced,\u201d says Thompson. \u201cI think everyone\u2019s a lot more confident in what we\u2019re doing. We kind of found a process for songwriting that worked really nicely. I think we were really able to put together a really great group of songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

With back-to-back shows this month\u2014including three nights in Vancouver, followed by two here in Victoria\u2014and plenty of side projects for all band members, including Thompson\u2019s two-man project Anunnaki, Thompson and the other members of Wolf Parade have no intentions of slowing down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some festival shows through the spring, we\u2019re finishing off the record, we\u2019re doing some touring this summer, we\u2019re doing the Vancouver and Victoria shows,\u201d says Thompson. \u201cWe realized that when we came back together again, we needed to give the west coast some love. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun playing Sugar for old friends and family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolf Parade
\nSaturday, February 25 (sold out)
\nSunday, February 26
\n$29.50, Sugar Nightclub
\nsugarnightclub.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a six-year break, BC-born\/Montreal-bred indie rockers Wolf Parade are returning to Victoria. For drummer Arlen Thompson (who was in the University Transfer program at Camosun in 1999, when he also penned some Nexus articles), proximity and timing played a large part in the band reuniting, recording new material, and touring again after the release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-15-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13494,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/13494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}