What the Wolf listened to in 2011
10: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine Fife-born Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) and London-born producer Jon Hopkins were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2011. Both considered it a [...]
I’m in Your Church at Night
I bought tickets for Active Child’s gig at London’s St Pancras Old Church with the intention of enjoying it, not reviewing it, but sometimes music is too moving to keep [...]
New Wolf Sessions: #4 – Adam Donen
The stakes are raised when a video session is to be filmed in a cemetery for an album named ‘Vampires’. On our way to meet singer-songwriter Adam Donen, with miscellaneous [...]
Neverest Songs
Luke Twyman is the architect of the band Neverest Songs. Band names don’t always have a story but if this one did it’d tell of the meditations of a young [...]
Bon Iver: out of the woods and into the studio
Louisa McGillicuddy on Bon Iver’s eponymous new album. ‘I’m riddling all your stories / what I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up! / you’re breaking your [...]
Contemporary classical composition is still classic
Hauschka, Volker Bertelmann, composes music at the sort of rate that most musicians can only dream of. The Düsseldorf-based pianist and composer has created eight albums in as many years. [...]
The New Wolf Sessions: #2 – Disappearers
Aqueous, winding, corkscrewing – The Auricle is changing. And speaking of corkscrews: in keeping with our mission to provide the rarest and esoteric, we’re starting a new epoch of live [...]
What the Wolf listened to in 2010
No matter how many days I have sweated over the subjective finer detail of one artist’s oozing creativity over another’s – in the struggle to distinguish victors I may have [...]
The New Wolf Sessions: #1 – Lower Dens
Too many words are always an affront but on rare occasions, the mere presence can distract from a more basic language being spoken. The glint of an eye or the [...]
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