Song Recommendation: "Under Glass" by Wolf Parade (2020)

It’s the 5th anniversary release of the 5th Wolf Parade album, Thin Mind. “Under Glass” still stands as my favorite track and one that really (really) resonated throughout 2020. How could they have known that, only months from this album dropping we would all be able to scream along at the top of our lungs: “and now I can’t remember how life was outside?” And its critique of late-stage capitalism and its nepotistic cronyism is still not only apt but depressingly relevant: “[they poison] minds so nobody knows what they want…I wonder how I even know the names of the useless sons and daughters of the criminal class?” (Hunter, Ivanka, Baron, et al anyone?) And, of course the whole song just also rips. And, while it’s my favorite track on the record, the whole rest of the album is outstanding and worth a listen (I did name it may favorite of that year for a reason). I do hope we get some more tunes from Wolf Parade soon, can’t believe it’s already been half a decade.