★★★★★
The mighty troupe of howling, French-Canadian warriors that is Wolf Parade have returned in the form of a beautiful mess of an LP3, titled Expo 86 after the Vancouver World's Fair. All dudes in this band are wolves in sense that the wolf is a lone scavenger, toiling and cultivating their countless side-projects as much as their work in this band...
- www.junkmedia.org
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify Canada's Wolf Parade are in a tricky spot. In 2005, after producing Apologies to the Queen Mary, a debut album of raw, angular brilliance they equalled, or bettered it, with 2008?s At Mount Zoomer. And so the third one, Expo 86 arrives with all this this baggage and a certain weight of expectation...
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Every other reviewer is scared to give Wolf Parade's third full-length anything under 75% or anything over 85%. When I see such agreement between critics, it can mean one of two things: either the album is spectacular and there is something that the reviewers are missing (i.e. Hot Chip's One Life Stand), or the album is barely passable among the general public but somehow found its way onto the critics' "Darling" list (i.e. Sleigh Bells' Treats). But that is about to change...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
I'm playing the shit out of Fine Young Cannibals - put it in the earphones for the early morning of an uphill battle. Wolf Parade work in the grey of cities, alternately wallowing and celebrating it with bursts of colour. In fact, At Mount Zoomer benefits from the intimacy of the earphones, allowing one to (step back from the side projects and previous album) and just listen. You'll hear the well-crafted music married to above-average lyrics...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
It seems that music gigs are very much like real estate; it's all about location, location, location. Having received a tip-off that new Manchester venue The Ruby Lounge had some stage visibility issues, we got there as doors opened to take our places down the front. Some other friends weren't so pro-active and watched the gig from the back of the packed venue...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Wolf Parade, especially when it comes to the vocals of Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug, has never been more on the same page as on Expo 86. With Howard Bilerman on the boards, the songs seem played rather than crafted. This is an album that moves from start to finish, fitting the band's aim to make some songs to dance to. What Did My Lover Say? is what we've come to look to them for: big and a little akimbo, Sala Rossa music played at Métropolis...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The full-length is finally here and it's even tastier than anticipated. Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary is deserving of the speculative accolades that were, in the flames of a Montreal-music-scene Arcade-related fire, already being heaped on it. I can see indie kids around the world imploding with happiness when they hear the absolutely brilliant I'll Believe in Anything. Which is a huge compliment, because those little fuckers are picky...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Consider me all the way converted, even though I'd already swallowed the wafer long before their recent orgiastic Fringe Pop show, where, despite their parade being short a wolf, they proved that the hype was not preceding them, but rather following them justly...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09