Recording with Isaac Brock

In September 2004, the band traveled to Portland, Oregon to record with Modest Mouse ‘s Isaac Brock . Brock had recently signed the band to Sub Pop when he was an A&R man for the label at the time. He had known Dan Boeckner from his days in Atlas Strategic , who had toured with Modest Mouse and were offered a Sub Pop signing just before the band split up. Wolf Parade spent two and a half weeks working 14-hour days in Portland. After some remixing, the band returned to Montreal to finish recording. The album was scheduled for a May release, but then pushed back. On its new record label, the band released its first widely distributed EP, Wolf Parade , in July 2005.