“I’ll Believe in Anything” has found another life through Heated Rivalry, sending people back to Apologies to the Queen Mary more than twenty years after its release. Sub Pop marked the renewed attention with a pink-vinyl pressing in 2026. Somewhere, someone is encountering Spencer Krug’s voice for the first time. That is a pretty good outcome for a television placement.
Wolf Parade formed in Montreal in 2003. By the time their debut arrived in 2005, Krug and Dan Boeckner had established the band’s peculiar arrangement: two singers and writers, with neither reduced to the other’s foil. Krug’s keyboards and Boeckner’s guitar sit alongside Arlen Thompson’s drums and, on the original record, Hadji Bakara’s electronics. Isaac Brock and engineer Chris Chandler were involved in making the album.
Shine a Light gives Boeckner a place beside Krug’s newly rediscovered anthem. The two songs offer different entries to the debut, giving the television placement a second songwriter to introduce. A new listener arriving for one singer also encounters a second writer with a substantial role in the same band.
The subsequent catalogue has not escaped the debut’s reputation. Reviewing 2020’s Thin Mind for Pitchfork, Evan Rytlewski admired moments across the members’ later work but missed some of the debut’s volatility. The early record still sets an awkward benchmark for everything that follows.
Wolf Parade bring a catalogue extending through At Mount Zoomer, Expo 86, Cry Cry Cry and Thin Mind to The Pearl. The renewed attention begins with a Krug song, but Apologies to the Queen Mary also contains Boeckner’s Shine a Light. Starting there makes the rediscovery more interesting: it leads from a single familiar voice into the partnership that made the album.