Whether or not it was the backlash or the fact that it shared its title with a 1997 Jonathan Carroll novel, but Wolf Parade's second album will not be called Kissing the Beehive. (via Billboard) "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."
The band has settled on At Mount Zoomer because, well... it was recorded at their studio, Mount Zoomer. And as for the direction: "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."
