Patrick Wolf

Posted by: rodwsmith on 05 March 2007

Anyone else discovered this guy?

I saw him recently on the Late Review on BBC2, remembered enough to find details on the BBC website, ordered the album ("The Magic Position") and have been playing it near-continuously ever since. The title track itself is astonishing and uplifting.

Very difficult to categorise - maybe rather like a male Kate Bush with overtones of Bowie and musicianship way beyond the normal. Suffice it to say I ordered his other two albums from Amazon and have been excited to receive them today. Well worth looking into, and certainly hugely talented although not for everyone I'm sure.

Rod
Posted on: 05 March 2007 by JamieWednesday
excellent album released last week
Posted on: 07 March 2007 by ryan_d
Got the last 2 of his albums....lycanthropy and between the wires (i think thats what its called)

They are superb. He's got a very colourful and quite tragic past. I feel thats he's in a similar vein to PJ Harvey in his writing, and as far as I'm concerned thats very high praise.

Ryan
Posted on: 10 March 2007 by Alan Paterson
Is he the same guy that did a thing with Pete Docherty?
Posted on: 14 March 2007 by ryan_d
Not sure of the Pete Docherty collab.....can't say i'm a particularly big fan of his, so probably avoided any mention of him.

Ryan
Posted on: 14 March 2007 by rodwsmith
No connection with Pete Docherty that I have seen - and I must say I would find it surprising as Wolf's forte is supreme musicianship - I think he can (although others do) play pretty much all of the instruments on the records, which doesn't square with the little I know of Mr Moss, although maybe I am doing him a disservice as to my knowledge I've never heard a babyshambles record.

The Magic Position justs get better with repeated playings I think. If you find it on Amazon there are links to various other sites (including his own and the BBC) where you can hear, and see, to whet your apetite. I really like Lycanthropy too, although the new one is somehow (lyrically perhaps) more mature.

Rod
Posted on: 14 March 2007 by Alan Paterson
My mistake, it was Wolfman.