Operators, Doomsquad
Recommended
Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner used to satisfy his electro-pop urges as one half of Handsome Furs, but the duo called it quits soon after releasing the excellent Sound Kapital in 2011. With Operators, his latest extracurricular activity, Boeckner shakes off the Furs’ punky upset and fully embraces the dark joy of new wave nostalgia. The band evokes those perfect nights when sleep and morning and work don’t exist, when a club becomes an after-party and an after-party becomes a pre-dawn drive down streets that are the liveliest when you’re the only one on them.
by Chris Stamm