Lycanthropy (album)

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Lycanthropy
Studio album by Patrick Wolf

Publication
(s)

July 28, 2003 ( UK )

Label (s) Tomlab

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Folktronica

running time

51:22

production

Patrick Wolf

chronology
The Patrick Wolf EP
(2002) 		Lycanthropy Wind in the Wires
(2005) Wind in the Wires.

Lycanthropy is the debut album by British musician Patrick Wolf , released in 2003 .

Content conception

The album begins acoustically with wolf howls, and the myth of the boy who transforms into a werewolf , to which his title alludes, runs as a red thread through the entire work. With this metamorphosis, Patrick Apps, who has adorned himself with the stage name Wolf since the beginning of his career, builds up a corresponding image as a lone wolf, which he also maintains with the follow-up album Wind in the Wires . Only later, in his fourth studio album The Bachelor , did Patrick Wolf switch to the more commercial image of the leader wolf, who called his team and fans part of a pack (Wolf Tribe) .

The images that Patrick Wolf creates in the songs on the album revolve primarily around the theme of the lost child (e.g. in Pigeon Song ), and the disorientation and dreams of the not-yet-adult (A Boy like me) , and those who don't want to grow up (Peter Pan) . The subject of child loss and sexual initiation is illustrated particularly darkly in The Childcatcher , a disturbing song about the kidnapping of a boy by a pedophile sex offender, which contrasts the perspectives of both the perpetrator and the victim's mother. The rite of passage ( "rite of passage"), which is described here can also be interpreted based on the entire album, mutated by Patrick Wolf from making music for boys howling werewolf.

The overall pubertal character of the work (in a non-judgmental sense) is particularly evident in the title song Lycanthropy , which deals with the liberation from sexual identity norms through mutilation of one's own gender and the resulting happiness in self-discovery.

Track list

  1. Prelude - 1:31
  2. Wolf Song - 3:27
  3. Bloodbeat - 3:50
  4. To the Lighthouse - 4:05
  5. Pigeon Song - 3:34
  6. Don't Say No - 4:02
  7. The Childcatcher - 4:27
  8. Demolition - 6:07
  9. London - 3:53
  10. Paris - 4:46
  11. Peter Pan - 1:53
  12. Lycanthropy - 4:10
  13. A Boy Like Me - 3:29
  14. Epilogue - 2:06

Points of contact

Even Patrick Wolf Song Short Stories is about a wolf who becomes (or?) Lover of a boy, and is ambushed by the father of the boy with a gun.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patrick Wolf on Meta Critic . Retrieved April 5, 2006.
  2. ↑ a b http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1397
  3. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8773-lycanthropy/
  4. ↑ http://www.anost.net/en/Artists/Patrick-Wolf/Patrick-Wolf-Lycanthropy.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anost.net  
  5. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Patrick-Wolf-Lycanthropy/release/293557