A 'trendy' Patrick Wolf video...

"Hard Times" is one of the very best songs on Patrick Wolf's rather genius new album, The Bachelor, so it's a pity, then, that the video is so obvious and 'art skewl'. We're not saying we could have done better, but the song sounds like a Dickensian pop smash hit (if you can imagine that) and thus if we had been in charge of directing the visualette, we would have had Patty leaping around in Victorian England, with a chorus of dancing orphans and prostitutes, wringing their hands at the blackened sky and skipping about the smog of London like shadowy sprites.

That's just us, though.