Check out the the video to Patrick Wolf's current single, "Hard Times". The single appears on The Bachelor - available from the Bandstocks shop HERE - but if your hunger for tunes from Patrick remains unsated then pick up a free remix of the track from Alex Empire over at RCRD LBL.
Having performed the closing night of his UK tour at the Electric Ballroom this evening, Patrick embarks on a US tour on Friday, kicking off in Seattle on June 5.
With Patrick Wolf's Bloody Chamber Music/Bandstocks released masterpiece released today (June 1), the music press has been scrambling to celebrate The Bachelor as a true modern pop triumph.
Coinciding with the news that Patrick successfully reached the £100K funding total that had been set, the record has been pronounced a resounding success the week after Observer journalist Miranda Sawyer proclaimed Wolf as "unlike any singer-songwriter around. More radical, more talented, more confounding, more ridiculous". Here are some further quotes from the popular press regarding the record:
"A whispered breath away from sheer perfection" Clash 9/10
"You honestly won't hear a better album this year..." Dazed And Confused
"14 shape shifting tracks coalescing into one epic psychodrama... the ballads swoop and soar like vintage Kate Bush... complex and beautiful" Q ****
"A heady, richly satisfying experience" Financial Times 5/5
"The most convincing Kate Bush album of the year turns out to be by a man... It's a ravishing production, and feels like a fresh start for a brilliant career" Uncut ****
"Sometimes movingly raw, elsewhere overly melodramatic. Wolf's ambition is impressive" Sunday Express 5*
"Original, imaginative" Time Out *****
"Richly textured electro-pop teems with flamboyance" The Observer Music Monthly ****
"An album that rushes over you like a waterfall, demanding awe" NME 7/10
"A brilliant victory for art over commerce" Attitude
"52 minutes of dark, emotionally guileless perfection" CMU
"...Patrick Wolf is unlike any singer-songwriter around. More radical, more talented, more confounding, more ridiculous." The Observer, Miranda Sawyer
6Music were also good enough to acknowledge Bandstocks and Patrick's album earlier today. For more click HERE.
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