Colored darkness
10 years is nothing, depending how you look. For Patrick Wolf they are all his musical career since his first album Lycanthropy was edited To celebrate, he publishes the double set album Sundark and Riverlight reviewing his whole career. Not a single collection, but new acoustic versions of selected songs from these ten years with some unpublished tracks. It’s a way to see a much closer facet of Patrick Wolf, always so baroque. Listening to the album I do not miss any time his usual sound, rather one is glad to reach a more essential sound that will be hard to leave. From the initial "Wind and wires", this review makes me walk along the two discs desiring going back to the beginning once and again.
Eager to enjoy so elegant and delicate sound live and wondering if it will have any influence on his creative future. "Oblivion", "The Libertine" and many others succeed creating a sense of party’s ending rather than a celebration. The melancholy takes possession of the disc to be hurtful, also his voice. In his hand, we travel from Paris to London aware of the passage of time, hurt to know that even if we wanted to return, it will never happen. Patrick Wolf is aware that these ten years have passed and that those songs are the result of a specific time, and they cannot be the same. That Patrick Wolf is gone, like every one of us. We can never again set foot in the same river, but no one says that the new one cannot be even better, and this is the case. Apollo has finally touched the sun, but he prefers the moon.
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Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Photo courtesy of Patrick Wolf website
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