Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position

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Patrick Wolf is from an alternate universe where Scott Walker became a genre-busting pop star instead of sliding down the rabbit hole. Wolf’s dramatic crooning and outré sound sources are of a piece with Walker’s, but he couches them in some of the most sumptuous pop appointments this side of a Gwen Stefani song. His third LP reconciles the far-out experimentation of his early work with conservatory-trained finesse, yielding a sort of buttoned-down anarchy that sounds like nothing else.