Description

Sub Pop and Wolf Parade present a new, pink-vinyl pressing of their landmark album Apologies to the Queen Mary. This edition brings the long out-of-print album back to its original, single-LP format hot on the heels of the 2025 TV show Heated Rivalry, which introduced the albums single Ill Believe in Anything to a vast new audience, making the song a bona fide viral hit. Wolf Parade was founded in 2003 in Montreal, Quebec. After a pair of self-titled EPs, the band Hadji Bakara (electronic manipulations), Dan Boeckner (guitar, vocals), Spencer Krug (keyboards, vocals), Arlen Thompson (drums) released Apologies to the Queen Mary to widespread acclaim in September, 2005. The album was recorded by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock and engineer Chris Chandler at Audible Alchemy in Portland, Oregon. Apologies to the Queen Mary barrels headfirst and breathlessly through songs written during Wolf Parades early years together as a band. The albums catchy, energetic urgency immediately established them as one of the defining forces of 2000s indie-rock. It earned a 2006 nomination for Canadas esteemed Polaris Music Prize; The Guardian raved, magnificent, all told; Pitchfork gave it a 9.2 rating, saying, Wolf Parades true talent is transforming the everyday into the unprecedented, and later joined the chorus of critics who placed it among the best albums of the 2000s. Two decades on, Apologies to the Queen Mary has lost none of its vitality and continues to win over new generations of fans.

This new, colored vinyl, single-LP edition of Wolf Parades landmark album Apologies to the Queen Mary makes the fan favorite available on vinyl for the first time in years. This is the first ever colored vinyl pressing of the original single-LP version.

Includes viral hit Ill Believe in Anything, recently featured prominently in show Heated Rivalry. Since the shows late 2025 US release, the track has exploded with a streaming increase of over 3,000%.

Apologies to the Queen Mary received a 9.2 Pitchfork rating, and is widely considered a milestone of 2000s indie-rock.
For fans of The Shins, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Wet Leg, Geese.