Where Nothing Moves, So Time Goes Slow

Wolf Parade “Little Golden Age”

Dan Boeckner has one of the best rock and roll voices of his generation. He always sound serious, passionate, and intense, but not so much so that he seems dour and humorless. At his very best, he’s like Springsteen filtered through punk rock — the Boomer sentimentality is stripped away, and all the grandiosity is traded away for a bare bones minimalism with equivalent levels of bombast. “Little Golden Age” is an ideal vehicle for the Springsteen-not-Springsteen quality of his voice. The arrangement implies some deep, burning emotion, but it’s mostly just a song expressing a reticence to indulge in self-mythology. You could call it nostalgic, maybe, but is it actually nostalgia if you’d never want to go back to it?

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