Post by Schadenfreude on May 1, 2009 17:43:52 GMT
www.the-fly.co.uk/words/features/4608/first-listen:-patrick-wolf-%E2%80%98the-bachelor%E2%80%99
I came across this today, and having heard the album myself, I find some of the things they say quite strange. For example:
"Hard Times
After an intro like ‘Kriegspiel’ you’d be forgiven for expecting this track to leap right out and grab you, but this is Patrick Wolf, so expect the unexpected. ‘Hard Times’ is another heavily instrumental track which starts with the sounds of a distorted radio before a sinister violin riff backed by muted guitar kicks things into action. If you listen closely you can hear a choir singing very faintly but that and the drums are firmly in the back rows for this song."
Hard Times? Instrumental? What?
Edit: All I can fathom is that they've heard a version of it without the main vocal line?
And also:
"Theseus
There are not many acts that can wait until track 12 to introduce guitars into the mix but then again there aren’t many artists with Patrick Wolf’s instrumental range. ‘Theseus’ throws together Elliott Smith style strumming, jangly sitar and operatic strings to produce a song which is rich in sound and vast in flavour."
a) There's already been guitars before that (they even said so themselves)
b) There's not really much guitar in Theseus (if any), it's ukulele!
There's many an odd point in that article...
I came across this today, and having heard the album myself, I find some of the things they say quite strange. For example:
"Hard Times
After an intro like ‘Kriegspiel’ you’d be forgiven for expecting this track to leap right out and grab you, but this is Patrick Wolf, so expect the unexpected. ‘Hard Times’ is another heavily instrumental track which starts with the sounds of a distorted radio before a sinister violin riff backed by muted guitar kicks things into action. If you listen closely you can hear a choir singing very faintly but that and the drums are firmly in the back rows for this song."
Hard Times? Instrumental? What?
Edit: All I can fathom is that they've heard a version of it without the main vocal line?
And also:
"Theseus
There are not many acts that can wait until track 12 to introduce guitars into the mix but then again there aren’t many artists with Patrick Wolf’s instrumental range. ‘Theseus’ throws together Elliott Smith style strumming, jangly sitar and operatic strings to produce a song which is rich in sound and vast in flavour."
a) There's already been guitars before that (they even said so themselves)
b) There's not really much guitar in Theseus (if any), it's ukulele!
There's many an odd point in that article...
