Superwolf
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney
- Band Name: Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney
- Record Label: Drag City / Domino
- Release Date: Jan 25, 2005
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Superwolf contains some of [Oldham's] most startling work yet.
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90Frayed, fuzzy and undeniably excellent.
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90Superwolf is collaboration in the truest sense of the word, and the talents of the two musicians involved feel revitalized and meaningful in ways that they may not have for some time.
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Superwolf is the sound of two artists on the same creative page, both bringing unique abilities to the table and elevating the other's talents as a result.
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84Soft and subtle, Superwolf is the kind of record that unwinds slowly, and is best enjoyed over multiple listens and, unsurprisingly, many glasses of wine.
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Superwolf is Bonnie-era Oldham trying to channel Palace-era Oldham.
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80Will's work has seldom had a stronger sonic setting.
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Superwolf is simultaneously bleak and tender, the kind of album to reveal itself in layers over time. [#9]
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80In this lunar setting, Oldham's visionary, spooked words are lit up with renewed clarity. [Feb 2005, p.78]
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With Sweeney on hand, Oldham has kept some of his less appealing musical eccentricities in check -- this is one of his strongest and best-focused works in years.
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80Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]
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Sweeney brings an array of agile guitar playing and striking harmonies that create a more contained, musically astute Billyvironment.
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Superwolf is Americana at its most grim. [Apr/May 2005, p.134]
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80The collaboration has had the effect of sharpening Oldham's focus and yielding one of the most gripping collections to bear one of his many pseudonyms. [#252, p.48]
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70Superwolf's arrangements are pretty raw and understated--under-rehearsed, even--but for the better. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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It doesn't feel right to be beating Will Oldham down for doing something that is so distinctly his own, even though he is doing it again and again to a greater or lesser extent.
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Full of sombre, skeletal and obliquely confessional songs, it's a crafted collection with ruminations on sex and loss. [5 Feb 2005, p.50]
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jeffb9Great song writing. best work sense ease down the road.
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