Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
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‘The Bachelor’ is part one of Patrick Wolf’s coming-of-age saga. “I want to grow old disgracefully. I want to become more and more unconventional,” he says, touting the first half of what was originally planned to be a double album, now split in two, the second of which is expected to reach our ears next year.
We’ve found him howling at the moon by a fairytale lighthouse, playing lone ukulele on the rocky shores of Cornwall, and spinning disco balls while writhing around on the floor of the colourful and electric pop underground – the latter of which spiralled him into the mainstream, everywhere from popular music television to some rather questionable guest spots on chat shows we’d rather not mention. Now, though, we can unearth his darker, radically more candid side – a side directly in spite of Wolf’s reluctant success, and a significant leap from the seed of that: 2007’s major-label release ‘The Magic Position’.
The new album takes on a drastic new turn, incorporating Patrick’s signature love for traditional English and Celtic folk music and fusing it with futuristic, slippery and sinister techno-pop, the latter of which boosted to extreme with help from ex-Atari Teenage Riot man Alec Empire. ‘The Bachelor’’s headlining single ‘Vulture’ carries most of the weight of that new sound, but it trickles off into nooks and crannies found all over the album, which, as a whole, is a direct U-turn, delving deep once again into Patrick’s true roots: romantic English folk.
Opening track ‘Kriegspiel’ is almost a warning of what’s to come – lyricless, it is an electric crescendo that bleeds into the heavier couple of tracks on offer – ‘Hard Times’ and ‘Oblivion’, both of which incorporate something that has never really been brought to the forefront of Patrick’s music before: guitars. A familiar aspect the album does include, though, is the collaboration with some (pleasantly) surprising guests – English folk artist Eliza Carthy, and flame-haired British actress Tilda Swinton as “the voice of hope”.
The wild romanticism of the haunting ‘Damaris’, ‘Thickets’, ‘The Sun is Often Out’ and ‘Blackdown’ really raises ‘The Bachelor’ to new, colossal and breathtaking heights. “Desire, desire, deep down inside of me / You are not the maker nor the master of me,” Wolf insists, shrugging off the emotional turmoil of his days as a hedonist, promising us – and, most importantly, himself – that he’s coming back home.
‘The Bachelor’, like so many romantic yarns before it, is epic - and a whispered breath away from sheer perfection.
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Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
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Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps on 30 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola. Known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments, Wolf's styles range from Romantic folk to techno-pop.
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He started his musical education with violin lessons and church choirs and made his first theremin at age eleven, and first began recording songs with his violin, voice, and car boot sale organs on a four-track tape recorder at age twelve. At fourteen, he joined and performed with pop art collective Minty.
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Wolf's ongoing writing and recordings brought him to the attention of Fat Cat Records, who provided him with an Atari computer and a mixing console. During the recording of Lycanthropy, Wolf studied composition at Trinity College of Music for one year. Lycanthropy was released in the summer of 2003.
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Following the success of Wind in the Wires, Wolf signed a record deal with Loog in 2005 and began recording his third album, The Magic Position, which featured collaborations with Marianne Faithfull and Edward Larrikin of Larrikin Love.[4] A low quality version of the album leaked onto file-sharing networks in its entirety on 3 January 2007.
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Following the success of Wind in the Wires, Wolf signed a record deal with Loog in 2005 and began recording his third album, The Magic Position, which featured collaborations with Marianne Faithfull and Edward Larrikin of Larrikin Love.[4] A low quality version of the album leaked onto file-sharing networks in its entirety on 3 January 2007.
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Patrick utilises a wide
Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola. Known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments, Wolf's styles range from Romantic folk to techno-pop.
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He started his musical education with violin lessons and church choirs and made his first theremin at age eleven, and first began recording songs with his violin, voice, and car boot sale organs on a four-track tape recorder at age twelve. At fourteen, he joined and performed with pop art collective Minty. Two years later, he dropped his A-Levels and left home. During this period, Wolf earned money from busking in a string quartet and formed a group called 'Maison Crimineaux', a noisy trio built on destructive ethics around white noise and pop music. He also continued to write and record his own material.
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I thought on the whole this album was better than The Magic Position. As the reviewer said - it's not an easier listen, but the songs are more interesting, and better crafted.
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This album will slip out of the collective consciousness soon; Patrick progressed with the over-the-top aspects of his Magic Position work and left the subtle beauty of his earlier output behind. It’s all too shimmery and sugary and theatrical. On The Bachelor, he sounds as though he’s made a caricature of himself. You comparison of his works and growth from album to album to Radiohead’s is totally off-mark and shouldn’t be tolerated! That’s my opinion anyway Thanks for the review!
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A Maison Crimineaux gig in Paris was attended by electronic maestro Kristian Robinson (aka Capitol K), who would then go on to release Wolf's debut album Lycanthropy.
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