Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia album flac

Formerly The Conqueror – originally the second part of a double album entitled Battle – the album's title and concept was changed by Wolf in August 2010. On 4 November 2010, Wolf announced that the first single from the album was to be 'Time of My Life' and the song was posted on YouTube

Lupercalia ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, Sli).

Patrick Wolf, who is pictured inside the booklet of his fifth album with a heart-shaped bindi painted between his eyebrows, is the man for the task. Mustering all the positivity that befits a man set to enter a civil partnership with his boyfriend, Lupercalia sees the multi-talented Mr Wolf moving away from the sometimes-dark territories of The Bachelor back in the direction of his pop classic The Magic Position. The sound is paradoxically lavish but understated: string sections and pianos are ever-present but always subtle.

Patrick Wolf: 'Lupercalia'. Patrick Wolf strips away the rage and electronic glitchery for a quietly stunning fifth album. Last time out, Patrick Wolf was all distortion and bubbling rage. But rather than serving up an indulgent mess, he somehow channelled all that aggression into melodic glitchpop mini-masterpiece The Bachelor - a record which still sounds caustically fresh today.

If ‘Lycanthropy’ – Patrick Wolf’s first album – was an exploration of how to transform oneself into another form, then ‘Lupercalia’ is the end result of t. The original Lupercalia was a pre-Roman festival to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility.

Patrick Wolf rarely gives the impression of someone who creates music in a carefree fashion. At times the phrase "tortured artist" seems so crushingly apt that it's almost caricature. Lupercalia was originally meant to be the second part of a double-album, entitled Battle. The first part, The Bachelor, arrived in 2009 bearing the marks of its difficult gestation too heavily. Recorded after bouts of depression and exhaustion, it's an album that's hard to love, flitting between aggressive electronica and folk paeans.

Lupercalia was a Greek festival occurring around Valentine’s Day. It was a festival of purification and joy bringing fertility and love to all its attendees. Perhaps this album was cleansing for Patrick Wolf, dealing with the stresses and strains of life but who was purified. He calls this album a ‘festival of love’ but it’s also a great album. It is well structured, engineered and most importantly performed, even on CD. An album showing experience, emotional growth and personality, he has produced one of the best of the year.