Patrick Wolf - Bluebells
[Loog]

In October 2006, Patrick Wolf released the fairly uplifting Accident & Emergency single which left a few fans divided - was the mournful experimentalist changing sound? Would his third album (also his first since moving to Loog) The Magic Position be his "happy" album?

Bluebells strongly contadicts those theories and sees Wolf returning to his most bleakest form. Aside from the swirling whoosh of sound effects within the opening seconds, there's none of the experimentation or flirtation with electronic production we've come to expect of his musc.

Instead, the track is strictly piano-led with the heart-breaking notes of the instrument acting as a backing for Wolf's melancholic vocals. Bluebells lacks only in the lyric department (with rhyming couplets so shoddy as "You're love has come too late, I'll wave through the garden gate"), but the song is still a sweet lament and tale of lost love, made so dramatic by Wolf's vocals.

Anyone expecting a groundbreaking moment in musical history will be very dissappointed, as Bluebells looks to traditional compositions and songwriting - something he does very well.