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Wolf Parade - Expo 86 - Cover Art
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
Out June/July on Sub Pop

I have a weird feeling that this record is going to be important to me. I grew up just across the Canadian border from Vancouver, where Expo 86 was held, and at some point began to think I had imagined the entire thing: seven years old and riding through pavilions on moving walkways and getting a soft cloth baseball cap with the fair’s logo on the front and going inside the dome before it became the science center and maybe eating churros for the first time. Or if not imagined at least a composite memory constructed out of other, real experiences; nobody else I’ve met since 1997 had ever heard of Expo 86. But it was real. I’ve never been to Epcot and that photo could have been taken at the park near the house where I grew up. Did I trade basketball cards with these kids? Somewhere in a box in my mom’s house I’m a Brad Daugherty rookie card away from a 87-88 Fleer complete set.

The record had better be some capture-the-flag, kid-fun level romp. The art, in any case, is pushing my buttons.

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