In interviews following Wolf Parade's hiatus announcement back in 2010, they made it sound like the band probably wouldn't get back together. Spencer Krug, at least, didn't believe it was ever going to happen. "It had become a bit of a predictable grind," he said in a phone interview with Pitchfork earlier this week. "We wanted more time, we wanted to try other things, we were getting sick of each other."

Then, in 2014, after a period of time spent living in Helsinki, Krug moved to the woods on Vancouver Island. Suddenly, after years of being located in different cities across the world, the members of Wolf Parade weren't as spread out anymore. Aside from Dan Boeckner, who travels from Montreal for practices, they all live near each other again and have access to a recording studio. In late 2014, they decided to get in a room together, plug in their instruments, and see what happened.

After some jamming and recording, Wolf Parade have announced a handful of live shows. While they've definitely been working on new music, Krug is hesitant to nail down when, how, or even if that new material will surface. "I don't know how those songs are gonna see the light of day," he said. "I think eventually we'll put out new stuff. I hope so. That's part of the plan."

Pitchfork: When and how did you guys decide to get the band back together?

Spencer Krug: I think we started talking about it in late 2014 and then all through last year. We just wanted to get the old band back together [laughs]. We just started jamming again. I live on Vancouver Island now, and it just so happens that three of us live here: Dante DeCaro also lives on Vancouver Island and the drummer [Arlen Thompson] lives just an hour north of us. Until I moved here from Helsinki in 2014, we were always in drastically different places. Dan was in L.A. for a little while, I was in Helsinki, and Dante was in Toronto. We were just spread around and everyone was doing their own thing.

Once the three of us by chance ended up here on the island, we started talking about wanting to play music together again. Dan would fly out here every once in a while. We have a studio nearby, and we just started playing, you know? And we weren't drumming up the old songs or anything. It's not like we plugged everything in and were like "one-two-three-four!" and started playing "This Heart's on Fire" or something. It was just about jamming and trying some new stuff. We were sort of just pretending we had never been a band before to some extent. We just spent a year just jamming, recording our jam sessions, just sort of fooling around and writing. It was good.