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Wind in the Wires

by Patrick Wolf

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2005

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Overall Rating: 3.1273 Wind in the Wires is ranked overall as 3.1273 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1429 Wind in the Wires has an avg. critic score of 3.1429 out of 4 stars

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Stylus Magazine

Patrick Wolf winters a garbage world. He eats paint and spits fingernails at the curb. He outlasts the caged night. ...more

Stylus Magazine

As an album, WIW seems to have sprung fully-formed from a single night’s restlessness; often more organic than much of his debut, but still with a steady electro-backed pulse, its pacing and sequencing flow like water beneath a frozen creek, barely seen and mostly imagined. ...more

All Music Guide

There's a young man's honest pain behind all of the flowery English vernacular. ...more

PopMatters

Wind in the Wires finds Wolf still learning how to harness his undeniable talent. While all this soaring, wind-catching, and destiny molding makes for some seriously inspired (and near-unclassifiable) music, it still means he's capable of losing the thread. ...more

PopMatters

Blustery Wind is ubiquitous in the language of poetry, sprouting up as motif and metaphor, signaling change and movement with a lick of its incantatory breeze. ...more

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Slant Magazine

Armed with a penchant for the melodramatic and a bevy of musical toys (violin, ukulele, piano-accordion, dulcimer, et al.), Patrick Wolf, a lanky 21-year-old singer-songwriter from South London who stands six-foot-four with dyed black hair and...read the complete review at Slant Magazine

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Pitch Fork Media

In his novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer , as well as in numerous short stories, Steven Millhauser has explored the dark gift of genius, particularly in children, and the toll it exacts. His precisely situated...read the complete review at Pitch Fork Media

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Mojo

Brings a little focus--and some memorable tunes--to the proceedings, though Wolf's muse remains doggedly...read the complete review at Mojo

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musicOMH.com

This is staggering. Vivid, vital and aching. Joyful but riddled with doubt, brave, and oh so alive. In a landscape where skinny boys with guitars eat up column inches faster thanPete Dohertyrelapses, I wonder where that leaves Patrick Wolf?You see,...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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