For a decade, Patrick Wolf, who prepared experimental Electronica, folk and chamber music with theatrical pop gestures, was largely discovered in the 2000s. Addiction problems, bankruptcy, accident, death of the mother – there was a lot to process. On Crying the Neck, his first album with new material since 2011, the multi -instrumentalist remains loyal to the basic pillar of his sound: beguiling strings and large melodies, in addition, reduces acoustic and streaked electronic.
The mythology of the country on which he lives continues to fascinate him. If the Briton sang places in Cornwall earlier, his current one is now haunted
East Kent’s residence through the texts, pagan rituals are interwoven with personal loss experience. However, Wolf does not remain in his own pain. In the sadly beautiful “Hymn of the Hair” he finds a drowned migrant on the beach.
And yet Crying the Neck looks more harmonious and milder than its predecessors. Wolf no longer celebrates hard breaks, only annoys a bit if he presses the hymn tube vigorously in the Zola-Jesus duett “Limbo” and the life-affirming farewell “Dies Irae”. Patrick Wolf was never suitable for minimalists anyway. The rest is allowed in full indulgence.
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