Patrick Wolf

Recently, I have become completely addicted to Patrick Wolf's music. I haven't been so hooked on a particular artist's work since I discovered David Bowie a few years ago. Patrick is one of those rare talents that have the ability to move the listener's emotions. His music is both epic and intimate, ambitious and simple, heart-wrenchingly painful and gloriously joyous. It's as though he breathes his music; it's organic, it pulsates with life. The themes that run through his work -- loneliness, freedom, nature -- are timeless, as are the beautiful strings (Patrick plays the viola) and the hints of old folk music and traditional myth. Coupled with this ageless quality is the very modern electronic element to his work, which gives the music an undercurrent of sexuality and a heartbeat-like pulse.

I saw spirits

Crawl across the river mouth

In skewed ascension

With no destination

Like this lone bachelor in me

This constant yearning

For great love and learning

For the wind to carry me free

Of course, I have to say that the androgynous appearance is a bonus too...it seems I have a little bit of a thing for more effeminate guys in makeup, which might be a potential distraction from my general lesbianism if it weren't for the unfortunate drawback of male genitalia. Ahem.

Wind in the wires

It’s the sigh of wild electricity
I’m on the edge of a cliff
Surpassing
Comfort and security

But here comes a gale
A crippling anger
Sea birds are blown
Into the rocks
Grace is lost to thunder

Patrick has been producing stuff for quite a while now; his first album, Lycanthropy, was released in 2003 and his latest album, the INCREDIBLE The Bachelor, came out in 2009. His next piece, The Conqueror, is due for release later in the year. I can't wait! I'd love to go and see him live, but I'm not aware of any upcoming gigs... :(

Hooray for Patrick!

J

xxx