The Magic Position is a wild and beautiful ride. There are fireworks, electronics, trumpets, dissonant squalls, ukuleles, femme fatales, pianos, orchestras, beats, and escaping lovers.  Full text...

Room to improve, then? Yes, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. On this form, Patrick’s next album will be sensational, and the fifth will be…  Full text...

Take a fey, slightly mad looking young English man boy, feed him liquidised Bowie and T-Rex throughout his formative years, let him loose in an Oxfam shop containing only the salvaged belongings of an insane autistic aristocrat and Patrick Wolf is something similar to what might just come out the other end.  Full text...

It won't sell as well as Damien Rice, but for those who do buy it, the rewards will be absolutely boundless.  Full text...

There's a new, lusty Thin White Duke at the door, let him in.  Full text...

Patrick Wolf must be one of several foppish performers cursing at the instant success of Mika, but his third album is good enough to evade fashion  Full text...

Give it a couple of albums and a few more years' of maturity and that could all change, but for now, Wolf remains an outsider, rather the outsider pop star he aspires to be.  Full text...

It's frothy, blue-eyed pop.  Full text...

As a rule, a pop album should never open with an "Overture", and if it must, it shouldn't sound anything like "Mad World".  Full text...