First impressions of the new Patty Wolf album

It is quite good!

We were worried it would be a frightful electronic mess BUT it's not. Thankfully Wolfy has kept the electronic elements to a minimum (they are tinges, not full on barrages) and sticks to what he does best: spooky, dark, orchestral, folky pop.

There are violins, pianos, AND TILDA SWINTON talking over bits. It's all rather gorge. It's probably just as well seeing as his last album (despite some amazing songs) seemed to have no theme other than "more commercialer than before".

Things do get grim at the end ("Battle" is terrible). But this is surprisingly good.

Well done.

(No more bottom shots, please).