Wolf Parade at Warsaw
Wolf Parade is full of fantastic musicians, so much so they could have full careers off their side projects. Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug seem to have a knack for turning their stage banter into fragments of song lyrics. When Spencer's monitors were not working at the start of the show he played a few notes on his keyboard and croaked, "Will you wait for me?” Later, when Dan was tired of waiting on Spencer to start a song he said, "Make the machine go." Spencer agreed saying, "Follow the plan."
They started the show with an old song and promptly said the rest of the songs would be new. Not true. But there have been multiple occasions when Wolf Parade had said, "We are tired of that song and don't want to play it." With only one released album that sometimes comes off as a little ridiculous but now with some new material to fire they were more willing to share all their old gems. The new tunes were melodic, jarring, hand clappable, and very impressive overall.
Also, Dante took a pee half way through the set; Spencer sweated it out over keyboard – as usual. And Warsaw has found a way to distinguish themselves as the only midsize venue with a crappy sign on the stage.
