Patrick Wolf: A Wolf In Wolf's Clothing
Ken Scrudato, SOMA, June 2009
IN AN AGE of insufferably style-less, beardy bores like Fleet Foxes and Band of Horses, when the gloriously outlandish and confrontational likes of Dresden Dolls and The Horrors are viewed with unceasing suspicion, the utterly resplendent Patrick Wolf has been like a shimmering beacon of iconoclastic magnificence.
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