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MojoJan 18, 2012A confounding and bewitching set of songs that feels gloriously out of time. [Dec 2011, p.100]
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Q MagazineDec 21, 2011Oldham has been so far ahead of the folksy Americana pack for so long that it now sounds like he's even caught up with himself. [Jan. 2012 p. 119]
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Nov 28, 2011Will Oldham's still got it.
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Nov 14, 2011Wolfroy Goes to Town haunts you quietly, in a private way that is, somehow, all the more devastating.
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Under The RadarNov 3, 2011Wolfroy is a stunning work of gospel strength, delicate folk, and evocative bliss that finds Oldham at his very best. [Oct 2011, p.96]
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Nov 3, 2011[A] sober, smart and his finest record since 1999's I See a Darkness.
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Oct 31, 2011The entire thing is an absolute, unerring joy.
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Oct 31, 2011Those who like their Will Oldham albums straight-up, sparse and intimate will find Wolfroy--the Kentucky singer-songwriter's 16th-odd album--right up their street.
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Oct 27, 2011With Oldham's melancholy vocal occasionally cast against the sweetly anguished Angel Olsen, the songs ponder God and humanity with religiously quiet intensity
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UncutOct 18, 2011An LP that's uncharacteristically respectful of the traditional country and hushed folk idioms that make it up. [Nov 2011, p.81]
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Oct 10, 2011It's an album of striking and stark beauty, with finely crafted songs that feel stripped to their bare essentials, and just allowed to be what they are, unadorned.
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Oct 12, 2011That sense of connectedness lends these songs a reassuring familiarity, as though they were new corners of a strange world whose boundaries grow larger and whose scenery grows more inviting with every Oldham release.
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MagnetNov 15, 2011Wolfroy goes to Town is a meditative and sparse collection, and much of it continues the same train thought at work in the "There is no God" b/w "God is Love" single. [#82, p. 52]
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Entertainment WeeklyOct 6, 2011He's sticking to what he does best. [7 Oct 2011, p.75]
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Jan 18, 2012Wolfroy... is all about lonesome beauty, and the idiosyncratic wordplay that has become Oldham's forte.
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The WireDec 6, 2011Bonnie Prince Billy shows no sign of slowing down his slowness, despite, or perhaps because of, the misery. [Nov 2011, p.56]
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Nov 29, 2011Wolfroy is certainly not the best Bonnie "Prince" Billy album, but it provides an interesting integration of his latest endeavors, which have gained him new territory beyond introspective indie folk freak status, with his earliest attempts that so clearly defined his voice.
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Oct 17, 2011Definitely for the faint-hearted.
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Oct 12, 2011More than the last few albums, Wolfroy rewards this kind of close relationship between listener and performer.
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Oct 6, 2011The result makes for a listening experience that's intense and potentially awkward, but one that also somehow rings true.
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Oct 4, 2011With a blend of creeping melancholy ("There Will Be Spring") and relaxed beats ("Quail And Dumplings"), Wolfroy is emotionally stirring and softly jaunty.
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Oct 28, 2011The stark landscape of Will Oldham's album is the musical equivalent of King Lear's blasted health.
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Oct 4, 2011His supporting cast has stabilized around multi-instrumentalists Emmett Kelly and Shahzad Ismaily, but song structures dissolve altogether on Wolfroy Goes to Town.
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Oct 14, 2011Its biggest problem is that, from start of finish, it feels strangely reserved.