Wolf Parade

Thin Mind [Sub Pop]

The curiously Canada-centric indie boom that so dominated the musical discourse of the mid-tolate oughts is looking strangely distorted through the lens of time’s rear-view. Whereas the turn of the century’s Strokes-led movement of, against all odds, fusing the sounds of The Velvet Underground and The Cars has been rightly canonized, their cousins from the Great White North rarely get their due. Frankly, Wolf Parade aren’t quite reediting the history books by diluting their legacy with pale imitations of their best work. Unremarkably fine to the point of being galling.

DW