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March 14, 2005
Insotastination
Wolf Parade - CBC Radio Session - Unkown Title
This is the third Wolf Parade track that I've posted, and in my opinion, it's one of their best. Their songs are some of the most invigorating that I've heard in the past year (in the sense that they make me excited about music in general)- not only are they musically inventive and captivating (Spencer's keyboard lines, Hadji's laptoppery, Dan's and Spencer's voices), but their lyrics also touch on themes that seem somehow more...essential. For instance, in this song (which may or may not be called 'Shine A Light'), Dan sings "It's just a matter of time/watch your parents die/and I pretend/I pretend/I'm content to be quiet", and [the chorus] "You know our hearts beat time out very slowly/you know our hearts beat time out waiting for something that could never arrive". But then, despite all of this pessimism, Dan still says, at the beginning of the song, "I keep my head uptight/make my plan tonight/and I don't sleep/I don't sleep/I don't sleep till it's light/some folks sink/some are buried alive". The narrator of this song functions by way of a sort of resignedly stoic outlook.
One of the best moments in this song comes at the 1:06 mark when Dan is singing and Spencer offers a kind of ranting, gutteral harmony. Their voices are so different (Dan's is more gravelly- a Jamie Stewart/Springsteen hybrid; Spencer's voice is like a shiny, wobbly, alien toy) and the juxtaposition is fantastic. Hopefully this song will be on their Sub Pop debut when it comes out in June/July (a studio recording of this song is bound to be just viciously good). I would urge all of you who have even a passing interest in this song to go ahead and order the band's outstanding second EP, available at Cheap Thrills (it's sure to be sold out soon).
P.S. The title track of Daft Punk's upcoming "Human After All" LP has been stuck in my head for 5 days. The rest of the album is sort of OKay-ish.
Posted by matt at March 14, 2005 08:00 AM
Comments
i wonder how one would pronounce "OKay."
Posted by: ms. holt at March 14, 2005 10:32 AM
I think it'd be like this: 'ock-ay'. Accent on the first syllable, probably
Posted by: Kevin at March 14, 2005 11:18 AM
does anyone have the lyrics for the rest of this song?? (Wolf Parade - Shine a Light)I would be overjoyed to know them all.
Posted by: Mallory at July 11, 2005 05:32 AM