Wolf Parade's Daniel Boeckner Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares New Song 'Lose'

Wolf Parade's Daniel Boeckner Announces Debut Solo album, Shares New Song 'Lose'

Boeckner! Out March 15 via Sub Pop

January 17, 2024

By Mark Redfern

Photo by Alison Green

Wolf Parade's Daniel Boeckner has announced his debut solo album, Boeckner!simply went by his moniker and shared his first single, “Lose,” via a music video. Boeckner! will be released on March 15 via Sub Pop. Listen to “Lose” below, followed by the tracklist and album art.

Randall Dunn produced, engineered and mixed the album, which was recorded at Circular Ruin in New York City and mastered by Heba Kadry in Brooklyn. The album also features Matt Chamberlain on drums, Medicine's Brad Laner, and Jeremy Gaudet from his collaborators, Kiwi Jr., who co-wrote the song “Dead Tourists”.

“As a teenager, I imported cassettes of Medicine's flawless shoegaze noise records and loved Brad Laner's sandblasting, Chernobyl guitar,” Boeckner says in a press release.

On working with Dunn, he says, “I've been a fan of his records forever, especially the Sunn0))) records he produced. Working with Randall really unlocked some repressed musical impulses, things that I enjoy in my private life but don't normally blend into what I release – like occult synth, pseudo-metal, krautrock and heavy psych influences.”

In addition to Wolf Parade, Boeckner has been involved in several other projects, including Operators, Divine Fits, Atlas Strategic and Handsome Furs.

“This record is like an autobiography — Atlas Strategic music of concrete synth explosions, rich synth stuff from the Operators, noise guitar from the Handsome Furs, drawing influence from everything from Stockhausen to Tom Waits at the same time,” says Boeckner.

“I think in a lot of ways in my mind I'm still playing in a punk band in Vancouver,” adds Boeckner. “Starting when I was a teenager, my life in music has been trying to develop my own musical language and this record is the beginning of that presentation.”

Wolf Parade's latest album, Subtle Mindreleased in 2020 via Sub Pop.

Read our 2017 Wolf Parade interview.

Boeckner! Track List:

1. Lose
2. Ghost in the Mirror
3. Wrong
4. Don't worry baby
5. Dead tourists
6. Back to Life
7. Euphoria
8. Holy is the night

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