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Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number. First name Please enter your first name. Please enter a name between 1 and 40 characters. Though there's incontrovertible proof that Wolf is long past trying to recreate the shadowy allure of his first two LPs, I gotta admit to hoping he'd bundle up in black again to at least reconcile his pop impulses with the gothic, brooding exaggerations of his youth.
For the most part, Brumalia -- which translates to "festival of the shortest day"-- does let some blustery weather in, but sonically, it's on par with Lupercalia and The Bachelor , so it's not barren trees and howling winds so much as ostentatious Christmas light fixtures in the pure, driven snow. Whereas Lupercalia was inspired by the giddiness of a real-life romantic partnership, Wolf sidesteps straight biography to reacquaint himself with instruments, samples, and memories he literally found lying around: A long-dormant theremin seeps through the stately pulse of "Bitten", the percussion underpinning "Nemoralia" is cobbled together from news footage of London's summer riots, the words of "Jerusalem" were adapted from William Blake, while the confessional lyrics of "Trust" are straight from Wolf's diary.
Though they're as lavishly produced as his proper records, the little sonic footnotes and specificity give Brumalia a demo-level, real-time immediacy that rarely comes through despite his gregarious persona.
Problem is that it begs the question of how exactly to evaluate the positive effects of Wolf's over-sharing: Does prior knowledge of Brumalia 's themes and history somehow lessen the value of its contents without it? Perhaps, since rather than using its brevity as a means of cohesion, Brumalia finds Wolf with a batch of songs unsure of what impression it wants to leave-- other than being a sonic appendage to Lupercalia , itself an uneven record.
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Wolf mixes electronics and samples with a wide range of instruments including viola, keyboards, ukulele, and percussion, all of which he plays himself to form a fusion of jazz, folk and electronic music. He began experimenting with sound and four-track recording at the age of 11, eventually building an arsenal of instruments that included junk-shop organs and a home-built theremin.
At the age of 14 he joined the pop-art collective Minty , a venture that caught the eyes and ears… read more. Wolf mixes electronics and samples with a wide range of instruments including vio… read more. Wolf mixes electronics and samples with a wide range of instruments including viola, keyboards, ukulele, and percussion, all of… read more. Similar Artists Play all. Trending Tracks 1. Friday 16 July Saturday 17 July Sunday 18 July Monday 19 July Tuesday 20 July Wednesday 21 July Thursday 22 July Friday 23 July Saturday 24 July Sunday 25 July Monday 26 July Tuesday 27 July Wednesday 28 July Thursday 29 July Friday 30 July Saturday 31 July Sunday 1 August Monday 2 August Tuesday 3 August Wednesday 4 August Thursday 5 August Friday 6 August Saturday 7 August Sunday 8 August Monday 9 August Tuesday 10 August Wednesday 11 August Thursday 12 August Friday 13 August Saturday 14 August Sunday 15 August Monday 16 August Tuesday 17 August Wednesday 18 August Thursday 19 August Friday 20 August Saturday 21 August Sunday 22 August Monday 23 August Tuesday 24 August Wednesday 25 August Thursday 26 August Friday 27 August Saturday 28 August Sunday 29 August Monday 30 August Tuesday 31 August Wednesday 1 September Thursday 2 September Friday 3 September Saturday 4 September Sunday 5 September Monday 6 September Tuesday 7 September Wednesday 8 September Thursday 9 September
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