Song of December: Patrick Wolf’s “Damaris”

What? You think it should be some holiday aria? F-that.  I can’t stand Xmas music.
“Damaris” as you know from my review of The Bachelor, is my favorite song off the cd and I was triple excited when Patrick announced it as the third single.  It is a string-ladden gorgeous ballads that swells up and tells the [...]

Quality Assessment: Patrick Wolf’s “The Bachelor”

I know, I know, I’ve been taking my sweet ass time with this one, but here it is at last.
Let me begin with the at once surprising and obvious: Is Patrick Wolf incapable of producing albums that are anything but great piece of art?  Yes, that sounds a bit pretentious but how else to describe [...]

Video of the Week: Patrick Wolf’s “Hard Times”

As you may or may not know, we here at the Dragon Lair heart Patrick Wolf’s incredibly, amazing artistry.  He’s so far produced 3 amazing/brilliant records that can at this point be considered *classics* and he did in fact released a 4th album a few months back that we haven’t been able to review because [...]

The Now Lists: Male Voices.

I was listening to the Best American Band™ of the last 15 years and counting and the orgasmic sounds of the lead singer’s singing and it occur to me that easter was a good time to make a “best of” list.  I’m not going to really concentrate on old singers because though I do listen [...]

Best of the Rest.

Among the tons of music videos release over the last few months, there has been a few that have strive for something other than apparent waste of money and time by all involved.  A few, yes, that were created with the intention of reaching some sort of artistic merit and audience stimulation–if not exactly connectio–and [...]