patrick wolf?

(although it's unclear if Buffy APPEARS on the album or just gets a co-write. I hope we get her voice, because it's maybe the only thing that could top that Marianne Faithful duet from Magic Position)

I have an awful, awful feeling I'm not going to like this. I tend to think that artists' first impulses are generally correct. That having constrained circumstances fuels creativity, and going back over old ground makes things less good rather than better. I mean, obviously I will listen, to challenge that view, but I don't think it bodes well.

if you don't like it, at least keep in mind that: "Its been a wonderful self assessment to make this album, extremely cathartic, Its left me a clear slate, head and heart to be able to move forward with the next 10 years."

it's a moment of reflection, and not an indication of direction. Lupercalia felt like the end of a particular musical journey, anyway, to be honest.

I'm also not sure I believe that. "I'm gonna retread old material" is often a sign of a block. But if this is his way of moving past it, good for him.

I agree WCC, but in Wolf's case I think it'll suit him? His records have been identity- and genre-experiments as much as they've been "filled with songs". Considering how inspired he's been by Mitchell et al., his arrangement decisions have decidedly been more contemporary (or at least, a hybridization). I'm very optimistic!

Tracklist appearing on various music store websites - not official but seems legit. Three off each album and then one song from the Brumalia EP. Nothing from the early singles and b-sides, which is a shame. This sort of re-recording/retrospective would have been a good chance to get Pumpkin Soup or Godrevy Point or something out to a wider audience, but it looks like a solid collection.

1. The Libertine
2. Vulture
3. Paris
4. Overture
5. Wind in the Wires
6. Oblivion
7. Bitten
8. Hard Times
9. Together
10. The Magic Position
11. Bermondsey Street
12. Bluebells
13. Teignmouth
14. London
15. House
16. Wolf Song

I mean, I'm not sure why we need a new version 'Bitten' or how 'Teignmouth' or 'Wind in the Wires', static beats aside, aren't already more or less an acoustic track, but we'll see soon enough

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First taste of the album = promo video with the re-recorded Overture (which was always acoustic, no? just very orchestral)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=3i-KqFCKa_c

The new version is nice enough, although I'm going to miss that stunning chamber quartet arrangement - one of my favourite bits of PW's string work.

However, per much of the thread earlier discussion, PW wandering around shirtless in a field continues to be a welcome sight.

Actually, with that warning, it's probably better that I don't watch this at work, hey? Heh.

well, it's not obscene. it's tasteful shirtlessness in a field.

shirtlessness while playing a harp and holding a pistol and stuff.

My reaction to PW shirtlessness is probably NSFW, mind.

OK, his ~voice~ is just like lying in a pool of warm sunlight and having someone poor honey all over your mind. Delicious.

also, I know this is so silly but HOW DO I TAG THIS. The songs all have the same names as earlier songs and aren't being called (Acoustic Version) or whatever and calling them (Riverlight Version) or (sund4rk Version) would be really silly and cumbersome and I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

How about Overture (2012)?

Why do you have to rely only on the song title tag for identifying what you're listening to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3qlGjtotjc

I like this.

Would really like a whole covers album by this dude.

Yo, WCC, pictures of PW with exposed chest and blunderbuss in the sleeve of his new self-covers record. And one of him in the bath, too. Albeit just his airily blurred face.

Anyway, sund4rk/Riverlight. Just arrived. Just listened to it. Acoustic versions of his "hits", or as close to hits as he has. Absolutely beautiful in terms of arrangements and performances and recording, as you'd expect. Not sure how much it'll get played, but the versions of Paris and London and Wolf Song might become my defaults (seldom go back to that first album). Shows him as a very, very accomplished songwriter and, as I've been prattling on about for aeons, an absolutely exquisite singer.

Anyone else got it?

Blunderbuss not a euphemism, btw. He really is holding an olde worlde gun.

He was in the video as well, though, wasn't he? It was more than a bit Dandy Highwayman if memory serves.

I saw the show and it was good to brilliant. Songs I've never cared much for were transformed into beautiful things. Not so surprisingly I suppose he's a good harper, I could've listened to him play it all night

Like but don't love the album now that I've had a few weeks with it. New arrangements work best with the older stuff, worst with stuff from The Bachelor. Lycanthropy is still better messy and glitchy but its nice to have the version of Paris that he's been playing live for ages on record. WitW tracks fare best mostly because they're closest in songwriting and vibe to the tone of this whole project. Bluebells is devastatingly gorgeous. I understand the point of the new political Bermondsey Street but it made me cry more when it made its point less explicitly (but still that's very Patrick cf Count of Casualty etc.)

Overall a pretty good stopgap and something he probably needed to do but I still don't know where he's at or where he's going.

The live set in Montreal was stunning though. We got Empress and Hazelwood (although no Godrevy Point or Pumpkin Soup - one day I will hear those live)

Pop montreal had weird one hour set limits even though he was a headliner so it was a relatively short jazz bar set but quite lovely for all that.

swearing about that short set, I was hopping locations and caught the last two songs. not a huge patrick wolf fan, but that was an amazing venue/artist match

gorgeous. sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYjxocJcxI

Still my favourite.

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/03/06/patrick-wolf-wind-in-the-wires-2005/

Saying that, though, I'd love him to make a full on Germanic / synth / disco / Moroder album.

Love that post nick, that's my favourite too. And over the past year, Lupercalia has somehow grown to become my second favourite PW album. It's a really confident, contented adult record - Peter Pan all grown up.

Yeah, I'd probably pick that as my second favourite too.

Although I reckon if you amalgamated the best tracks from Lupercalia and The Bachelor you'd have something really astounding.

Those two records are my favourites!

I've always liked his voice but as a singer he's progressed in leaps and bounds

magic position is my favorite, hits all the wonderland vibes most successfully for me esp. from "bluebells" onward

The Bachelor is just a little overlong for me, and perhaps a touch too grand. There are one too many songs like Damaris that go on for five+ minutes.

pop music in general needs more mystique, i guess that is the main lesson i have learned from him

After passively ignoring his existence for years and years, I now can't get enough of this homo.

ok.

FINALLY.

yesss

Haha, no one had brought him to my attention before. However you are responsible Alex, I had remembered you made Lycanthropy your number 1 Pitchfork People's List choice and picked it up on impulse from a second hand store.

I should listen some more. I really love a few singles and sadly only made it into the last minutes of a festival performance... which were great.

First three albums are solid. The Magic Position is my favourite these days.

Last two albums are very good too, albeit in different ways. The Bachelor is slightly overlong perhaps, but there are some amazing songs on it. The opening trio ar fabulous.

yeah magic position is my favorite as an album but there are really good songs on all of them

I can't hear "House" without thinking of alex.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/12/patrick-wolf-on-the-car-accident-and-his-comeback-it-completely-whacked-me-out-for-six

Miss this big guy.

Ooh thanks for the share. Love him so much.

he was hit by a car while on holiday in Venice

talk about unlucky