Patrick Wolf has always seemed too difficult to classify as he’s such a contradictory beast and the concept of The Bachelor and it’s companion The Conqueror – planned for release next year, rather than the double album as planned – is essentially ‘moving on’. Putting ‘things’ – an unedifyingly euphemistic term covering everything from relationships, desire, depression and ‘self’ behind him…erm, so what were his three previous album dealing with then?
I’ve never been one for cathartic, soul searching artistes bemoaning the woe-is-me world they live in – besides the very fact that such albums are such an elaborate construct of cherry picked idealogy and candour that they will never be the whole truth and hey, may not even be any of the truth at all. Maybe the intent at honesty and sharing is enough, not for me though.
There's no question that Patrick Wolf the romantic is at the forefront on The Bachelor but this time around he is perhaps more resigned than previously to life’s realities and disappointments, just like the rest of us.
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