And Pluck Your Strings

‘Lupercalia’ is a pretty great album, it just doesn’t really feel like a Patrick Wolf album. It’s the antithesis to 2009’s ‘The Bachelor’, which is ironic seeing as they were both originally intended to be part of a double-album with this new disc entitled ‘The Conquerer’, until Wolf’s songwriting took him in a different direction. One can only assume that in the time between 2009 and now he has found God or Love or something in between, because this is easily the happiest and most unreservedly hopeful we’ve ever seen Patrick Wolf.