Retro Track Review "I'll Believe In Anything" by Wolf Parade

Above: The French Film "Duels with Cannons"

So sometimes you put your iPod on shuffle and you run into an old friend. "I'll Believe in Anything," was clearly the standout track from Wolf Parade's 2005 debut Apologies to the Queen Mary. This song features His Yelpy-ness Spencer Krug (of Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, others) on vocals, backed by a droning bass, and a sort of noodly guitar hook. The song starts with apparently randomly chosen laptop-y bleeps and bloops, and then gets into the dense lyrics:

Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood
Your bones
Your voice
and your ghost

The song builds to a crescendo in the second verse, where the repeated

If I could take the fire out from the water
I'd share a life and you'd share a life

breaks it down into quicker, more insistent Wolf Parade rock outro, with:

I said nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn either way
About your blood
your bones
your voice
and ghost

This is a song that you shout out loud. Perfect. 11/10