A bit of a grower. Not as immediately catching as Apologies but still an incredible record after a few listens. Can't wait for another Wolf Parade record!

Great record.

Wow This band can't get any better. They are already at their peak with their second, or maybe not, maybe it gets even better. All I can say is wow

this is an insanely addictive piece of work. what i love most is in 'language city'. happy music contrasting boeckners voice is beyond amazing. they will always be my favorite.

I have listened to this album at least 20 times and I have to report that this album registers as the first major disappointment of the year – and following so hot on the heels of last year’s excellent Sunset Rubdown album you start coming to the conclusion that Spencer would be better off aiming for the stars on his own. This album is too grounded – it is pretty ordinary. Anyone expecting the playfulness of ‘Fancy Claps’, the emotional release of ‘I’ll Believe’ or the wintery desolation of ‘Dinner Bells’ is going to be left unfulfilled. It has a few really strong moments – ‘California Dreamer’ and ‘Call it a Ritual’ won’t disappoint anyone – but too much of the rest is pedestrian indie.… Expand

Remember when you first got into music and you started discovering bands like Television and wondered how cool it would have been to be apart of a movement where music like that was being played in clubs. Well, this then, might be your album. Someday a kid in the mid twenties of the year 2000 will be going through his dad's hard drive, stumble across this and be forever changed. Enjoy.

Not as great as the debut, but still solid

I think it's more of a 9.5. It really is an amazing listen. I enjoy it more than Apologies... in that this record refines some of their strengths, but still travels into some areas that may be out of their comfort zone yet ultimately successful. Dan Boeckner is a song-writing giant and paired with Spencer Krug they're the perfect tonic for what ails you.

It's just your average amazing Spencer Krug Album. I couldn't love Sunset Rubdown or Wolf Parade more so I am bias... but it's really easy to pass this album on to virgin ears and get an extremely positive response. Buy anything and everything Dan and Spencer do and enjoy your life that much more!

Excellent album, deeper and more of a growing album than their debut. Includes three instant classic 6+ songs. California Dreamer, Fine Young Cannibals and Kissing The Beahive (favourite WP song of mine) A rightly deserved 9! Spencer is a genius.

One of, if not the best, album of the year. There are truly inspired hooks in each song and a real sense that this band put a lot of effort, songwriting and production, into this release. I have a particular soft spot for concept albums, as I think it shows a real greatness to write consistently good songs about related topics and throw them onto an album that actually works. This one works very well. It's amazing to me that they've found such a wonderful balance with their own instrumentation. The high piano lines and jangly guitars from their previous album stand here unobtrusive and completely relevant, often complimenting one another in a way that makes you not think about them too much, which is, in my opinion, the way it should be. My only issue with it is the Bowie conjuring on "An Animal in Your Care" (not that I dislike Bowie, but it's an obvious rip-off), but that is quickly overshadowed by the fabulous second-half of that song. A++!… Expand

They've developed their style a bit more on the second LP. I loved the second half of the first album, and At Mount Zoomer is full of songs that remind me of it.

Apologies is still the better album- there's no equivalent on Mount Zoomer to Shine a Light or I'll Believe in Anything, but damn, At Mount Zoomer is still impressive, especially tracks like California Dreamer, An Animal in Your Case and the sprawling and surprising epic that is Kissing the Beehive.

Don't kill me for saying this, but Mount Zoomer does, in fact, reach the heights of Apologies. The taut pop-song structure on their first album contained the perhaps more cohesive songwriting -- here it runs free, wilder and more wolfish. It's the energy and life, though, behind all the histrionics which makes Kissing the Beehive the album's climax as opposed to a throwaway bit of self-indulgence.… Expand

Zoomer has none of the power and intensity of Apologies to the Queen Mary. There are some nice tracks (Fine Young Cannibals), but I was mostly disappointed. I don't know if its a product of the songwriting, the recording or the mixing, but it sounded flat to me.

Improves upon everything we all loved about Apologies to the Queen Mary. Pay no mind to the lackluster Pitchfork score, Amanda P. is out of touch and clearly didn't listen to the last 1/3 of the album enough to form a credible opinion. Best album of '08 thus far.

I love every negative review of this album: "it's not as accessible as Apologies...", "it's too hard..." "why doesn't it sound like Apologies".. Stellar album, if you'd only take the time....

Quite tedious to listen to, honestly. Not a band album by any means. It just tends to drag on and on. In reality, this would get a 7.5, but a 7 will have to do.

Remarkable. I should have known better than to be worried about the sophomore slump. This sounds more cohesive than 'Apologies' and really draws out some great harmonies and deceptively complex instrumentation. The first half of the album will sound familiar to fans, and the second ventures out and out, ending in probably the least self-indulgent 11-minute track I can recall (that's a good thing). Strong contender for album of the year.… Expand

I can't stop playing this one and will never tire of it either. It's quite different to "Apologies to the Queen Mary," which I still love and I really like their progression on this sophomore effort.

Brilliant album, quite different from Apologies, but the first 6 tracks are all excellent, especially California Dreamer, Call It A Ritual, and Soldiers Grin. Spencer Krug is again successful, he never seems to fail.

Its so hard to follow apologies to the queen mary. however, wolf parade does with another soon to be classic. kissing the beehive is all 11 minutes.

Who would have thought that being a 48-year-old post-punk newcomer as of the beginning of this scary decade as far as I can remember would eventually yield a gem that is "At Mount Zoomer," and I guess I need to revisit the Bowie catalogue, or just appreciate the fact that he seems to be one of the important Gods in my religion.