Wolf Parade promenades at the Granada tonight

Seattle Weekly writer Hannah Levin recently asserted that if Neutral Milk Hotel had continued making music after 1998’s masterpiece, In an Aeroplane Over the Sea, the group would sound a bit like Wolf Parade now. It’s an argument that might raise eyebrows (and heckles) from many of Jeff Mangum’s dedicated followers, but it’s a thought-provoking one. After all, Wolf Parade’s chaotic, charismatic rock shares a lot of the warbling, eerie beauty of Aeroplane‘s story line (which was imagined through the eyes of Anne Frank).