2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 3: Music.

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63.06 min • Bloody Chamber Music • October 15, 2012

Patrick Wolf’s acoustic retrospective Sundark and Riverlight is as beautiful as it is magical.

“It’s hard to believe that after ten years in the music industry that Patrick isn’t a legend.”

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Released March 12, 2012

The third album from Wallis Bird is a tumultuous and epic journey. First rate.

“This is late night folk, in a dark room with your window cracked.”

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Released January 23, 2012

First Aid Kit’s second album is rich and impressive.

The album is very much a bittersweet masterpiece, navigating complex emotions and themes that most adults can’t verbalise without the aid of a ‘shrink’ to tease it out of them.

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Released December, 2011

Patrick Wolf’s EP Brumalia is a dark hymn to winter.

Somewhere between Patrick Wolf’s last two albums there is a story of the vampiric nature of love, and this EP is the story of that love.

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Released on August 29, 2010

A striking video to accompany a striking song.

If Antony & the Johnsons and Patrick Wolf had a lovechild with Vanessa Mae, The Irrepressibles’ ‘In This Shirt’ would no doubt be the result.

An interview with Patrick Wolf.

Patrick Wolf talks his new albumThe Bachelor, the conflict with record label, Univeral, and taking on homophobes with the aid of the homeless.

When the internet came along the ‘freak’ they wanted to mock they could mock in a very public, Mediaeval English way. I am a big target for a lot of those type of people.

Extra material from the interview with Patrick Wolf.

Patrick Wolf talks collaborations, and what it means to be a performer.

When I changed my name to Wolf I was sixteen. In my early interviews I said I was a werewolf and I was born in a lighthouse on an island.

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Released on June 1st, 2009

A masterful album from a first-rate storyteller. Wolf is one of the most original singer-songwriters out there.

Wolf’s ability to forge the traditional with the contemporary renders his work with a timeless quality, and The Bachelor is an album which will undoubtedly endure.

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UK: 90 min • BandStock.com • Heaven, London

The maestro Patrick Wolf delivers an electric performance.

Patrick Wolf has all the charisma of the great ‘70s glam rock stars with the sensibility of a troubadour, and like all troubadours he has a tale or two to tell.