"There's less party talk," frontman Craig Finn tells Billboard.com of the new material. "I don't think anything is a radical departure, but there are things that I wanted to talk about. I was influenced a lot [by] getting old, and attempting to age gracefully. The idea is to not wake up washed up. You want to keep progressing, intellectually."

Indeed, tunes such as the slow, bluesy ballad "Lord, I'm Discouraged" and "Stay Positive" see Finn's narratives reflecting on themes of maturity. Fans will also notice that the band has opted to change up its sound on some tunes, opting for a harpsichord on "One for the Cutters" and a banjo on "Both Crosses."

"We didn't know that was the title of a book," Krug explains. "We might have to change it, but we might not. And we'll have to make it clear that it's not [named] after his book. It's a complicated situation."

"We had an idea of what it should sound like -- a more deliberate approach to make it sound in a way of having more space, in terms of music, frequencies and tones," he says of the tentatively titled "Kissing the Beehive," due June 17. "When I listen [to it], I can hear that deliberation."

Krug says Wolf Parade "did a bunch of free jams, for lack of a better word. And we listened back and would scroll around. The ideas would come out, and we'd solidify it and structure it and take a couple of cool parts and paste them together."

Danny Seim began the Lackthereof project in 1997. His other band Menomena started as a side project in 2000, and took over because Seim felt less self-conscious as a drummer than as a singer-songwriter.