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Includes the album's single InchI'll Believe in AnythingInch from the 2025 TV show Heated Rivalry, which introduced them to a vast new audience, making the song a bona fide viral hit. Wolf Parade was founded in 2003 in Montreal, Quebec. After a pair of self-titled EPs, the band - Hadji Bakara (electronic manipulations), Dan Boeckner (guitar, vocals), Spencer Krug (keyboards, vocals), Arlen Thompson (drums) - released Apologies to the Queen Mary to widespread acclaim in September, 2005. The album was recorded by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock and engineer Chris Chandler at Audible Alchemy in Portland, Oregon. Apologies to the Queen Mary barrels headfirst and breathlessly through songs written during Wolf Parade's early years together as a band. The album's catchy, energetic urgency immediately established them as one of the defining forces of 2000s indie-rock. It earned a 2006 nomination for Canada's esteemed Polaris Music Prize; The Guardian raved, Inchmagnificent, all toldInch; Pitchfork gave it a 9.2 , saying, InchWolf Parade's true talent is transforming the everyday into the unprecedented,Inch and later joined the chorus of critics who placed it among the best albums of the 2000s. Two decades on, Apologies to the Queen Mary has lost none of it's vitality and continues to win over new generations of fans. Album Tracks 1. You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son 2. Modern World 3. Grounds for Divorce 4. We Built Another World 5. Fancy Claps 6. Same Ghost Every Night 7. Shine a Light 8. Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts 9. I'll Believe in Anything 10. It's a Cure 11. Dinner Bells 12. This Heart's on Fire
