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Apologies to the Queen Mary
by Wolf Parade
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Overall Rating:
3.3890
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2618
Apologies to the Queen Mary Rank 4 Reviews
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Stylus MagazineBark to yourself, in tongue-bite, in seizure, and listen to your voice bristle with spasm. Watch the concern and genuine sense of incapacity fill the eyes of your neighbours. What now. All sense flows out of the skin right then, and itâs down ...more
Stylus MagazineThey’ve cleaned up their grungy guitar lines (thank you Sub Pop), reworked a few of the best songs from their early EPs, and the result is undoubtedly the best contender for the Arcade Fire/Broken Social Scene-helm of 2005. ...more
StylusMagazineThen imagine yourself surrounded by sizzling synths, drunken piano stomps, and lock-step pirate rhythms. ...more
Pitch Fork MediaConsidering the amount of pre-release talk surrounding Apologies to the Queen Mary , it's inevitable that reviews of Wolf Parade's debut will contain bad wolf puns, Modest Mouse references (Isaac Brock recorded much of the album), riffs ...more
PitchforkOn paper this all could sound average, but Wolf Parade's true talent is transforming the everyday into the unprecedented. ...more
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cokemachineglowEach song is either a seismic death rattle or aftershock. ...more
PrefixMagThis is not a record that should be bookishly analyzed. It's a record that begs you to call your friends and rant about how you feel the Rock in your veins. But I don't know you all that well. You wanna get a drink or something?Beer number one:This is ...more
PrefixMagThe Modest Mouse influence is apparent but in no way detrimental to Wolf Parade's sound. ...more
Lost At SeaConstantly winning and resurging, not a moment of Apologies to the Queen Mary is lost to the chaos. ...more
PopMattersWhat really distinguishes Apologies to the Queen Mary from just another ambitious rock album though, is the dynamic and accessible songwriting -- and the voices that propel those songs from the streets to the stratosphere. ...more
The GuardianMagnificent, all told. ...more
Drawer BOnce all the influences roll off your tongue, however, you’ll find yourself speechless before the excitement this album will invariably instigate. ...more
No RipcordWolf Parade is a great band, and while one will automatically think of Brock when they first hear You Are a Runner I Am My Father’s Son, (or any song featuring the first of the band’s two vocalists, Jason Krug,) many of the album’s strongest ...more
FilterCanada is often a punch-line--thanks to Strange Brew, South Park and Michael J. Fox--but that's changing. Pals with fellow countrymen Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade take a similar penchant for balls-to-the-wall theatrics. But these Canucks charge the ...more
PrefixMagThis is not a record that should be bookishly analyzed. Its a record that begs you to call your friends and rant about how you feel the Rock in your veins. ...more
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