Spencer Krug shares solo piano version of Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything”

Wolf Parade‘s Apologies to the Queen Mary track “I’ll Believe in Anything” has seen a revival recently from it’s usage in Heated Rivalry, and after debuting a new solo piano version live in Vancouver last month, bandleader Spencer Krug shared the solo studio version of that version of the song. Hear it below.

Krug and Dan Boeckner talked about how the license came about in a recent interview with Vulture:

Dan Boeckner: We work with this publishing company, Third Side, who are based out of Montreal, and they have always done really well by us. It’s not a big corporate office, and they’re sort of family-based. They all come from the DIY music scene.

Generally, when we get pitched stuff, it goes through them and they’ll say, “Hey, guys, there’s a Canadian movie and they can only give you $1,000, but they would like to use this song,” and we’ll say yes or no. But this one was different in that Jacob had outlined exactly how he wanted to use the song, where it was going to be placed in the narrative context, and what beats it was going to hit.

I don’t think I’ve ever really seen that in a licensing pitch before. Obviously, I knew Jacob’s work with Letterkenny and Shoresy, but it struck me as something cool and different, considering a lot of licenses are treating film like there’s this fire hose of content of series and films mainly on streaming platforms. Over the last five or six years, as the recipient of a lot of these license requests, it feels like not a lot of care is being put into the construction of these things. This felt very, very different. For me, at least, it was an easy yes.

Spencer Krug: It felt really intentional. You could tell he cared about the song, too. He wanted that song, which made it an easy yes. It wasn’t like, “Well, if this doesn’t work and they say no, we’ll ask a different band.” I think if we said no, he would have had to change the script.

Wolf Parade have a few Canadian shows scheduled in March, and they say “additional dates will be announced very soon.” Stay tuned. Krug also has a June solo show, and you can see all dates below.

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WOLF PARADE: 2026 TOUR DATES
Wed. Mar. 11- St. Catharines, ON – Warehouse
Thu. Mar. 12 – St. Catharines, ON – Warehouse
Fri. Mar. 13 – Hamilton, ON – Bridgeworks
Sat. Mar. 14 – Guelph, ON – Sonic Hall
Sun. Mar. 15 – Guelph, ON – Sonic Hall
Fri. Jun. 5 – Vancouver, BC – St. James Hall *

* Spencer Krug solo