Patrick Wolf finds the Magic Position...
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Cult singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf has released a statement to mark the completion of his much-anticipated third album, entitled The Magic Position, to be released later this year on Loog:
"Yesterday night around seven pm... a very exciting thing happened... I completed my third album, The Magic Position!
It's been quite an exhausting process to tell the truth... my ambition was to create a forty-minute wonderland that can lift the listener out of all their problems and correct their sadness like a magic spell...
Well, of course you will all be the judge of whether my little mission has been completed but all I can say is after mastering yesterday (the third mastering session that has taken place for this album!) I walked away with a bigger smile and dance in my heart than I have done with the last two albums, My perfectionist producer streak has almost been the death of me with this album but still on completion... I ran screaming down the streets of Shepherds Bush straight into the nearest bar with my best friend and proceeded to drink snakebite and dance on the sofas, I think I ended up in a death metal bar in Soho but I can't remember how I got home. But I am.
Life is fantastic today, The sun shines in on south London, the birds are singing and I am too. I hope you all have a bit of patience for waiting to hear and hopefully enjoy the monster I just made, I know it will be a good few months before release. But one thing finishes and another starts...
Yes, now comes that part of this rollercoaster that deals with my public behaviour. The shows... the videos... the singles... the questions and answers... It's going to be a long year or so ahead but I am preparing.
I now leave you only with love, I must sleep again I am tired, emotional and full of terrorism... and it feels fantastic...
Now now, brown cow, let me put you in the boom boom... magic position!"
Patrick is also doing a rare DJ set this Sunday 16th July at 9pm, at MacSorley's (42 Jamaica Street), Glasgow.
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Ha
Has anyone else got the Duracell advert that looks like a line dancing convention? Ace.
And a man with a flashing head at the top left!
Existential.
this
guy would be reet good if he just left it as instrumentals
If I hadn't seen him live earlier this year
I'd be more than excited about this. I'd be queueing to buy it RIGHT NOW.
As it is, I can barely raise a 'Yeah, maybe...'. I hope I am proved wrong.
I can raise a YES!
Was he crap when you saw him, then? Why the unbothered?
It was
utterly, utterly awful. It really annoyed me. And the new stuff...and I know it's hard to tell when you've only heard it once and it was live and blah blah blah...it wasn't very good.
We shall see.
EXTRA EXTRA
There is a Libertine b-side, a remix and a new song (from a film soundtrack maybe?) on his MySpace.
Blimey
I've seen him twice - bit let down the first time, enthralled the second - but utterly awful doesn't bode well. Let's hope he was having an off night...
i've been listening to lycanthropy
recently to get me into him again, and this news excites me. he was pretty crap when i saw him supporting bloc party, but then again the fans didn't even give him a chance and spoke over him.
i look forward to this greatly.
Bamos lieth
It wasn't particularly amazing. but it wasn't by any means BAD either!!!
I have to admit, last time I saw him, at the Scala
I was close to walking out with disgust. There was precious little magic to be found beneath the layers of stagey mid-song half smiles, histrionic, flouncy piano playing and faux-humble thank-yous. But I am holding some hope for the record, because the last song of the evening, 'Stars', was a glimpse of the Patrick of old... a beautiful, soaring, sparkling Bjork-esque effort...
Didn't see him at the Scala (or at the Lyric theatre, which I really wated to go to)
but that sounds quite a lot like when he played the Barfly just after Lycanthropy came out. It was all a bit too - um - cheery, if that makes sense, and a bit too like a PA rather than a performance. He even laughed at requests for "Childcatcher" and said he wouldn't play it as it was depressing.
The second time I didn't even know he was on - I was going to a club at Infinity, and when I got in he was just playing the piano and singing, totally unselfconsciously. It was almost like we were peering through the door of his room and he didn't know we were there. Perfect.
it was so disappointing
his 'happy' stuff was terrible. I hope there's a dark side to this album.
!
When i saw him at Bristol kids decided to crowd surf.
To my pleasure, they got booted from the venue. An hour or so before Bloc Party even graced the stage. Ha ha.
Bloomsbury Theatre
On of the best gigs I've ever been to, apart from Larrikin Love trying to ruin he party, it was amazing!!
Good news!
Bit worried by the naysayers who've seen him live this year but I'm really looking forward to this. As it happens I was listening to Wind in the Wires when I noticed the news. I'll take that as a good omen!
Don't worry...
...the new stuff was fantastic IMO, yes it was happier sounding but that's no bad thing. I've seen him three times and you can see the progression that he's made each time. The new material still had the Patrick Wolf charm, and there was brilliant usage of samples and electronic bits (check me out with my technical terminology!) but it was genuinely impressive. 'Stars' was completely moving, and I'm excited about the album.
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