I haven't had the opportunity to listen to The Bachelor, Patrick Wolf's follow-up to the exuberant The Magic Position. However, I have had the pleasure to to listen to one amazing track,
Damaris. This song is beyond melodramatic, but something about the way Wolf does it, makes it work. Its at the same time sincere and camp. In my mind I see an epic story, with Patrick in all his regalia, and its great, and it moves me.
The orchestral arrangements of this song are really what make it stand out. They are supremely cinematic but at the same time catchy and almost fun. Wolf sings of a lover lost, while he waits by his grave. The song crescendos with a choral voodoo chant - rise up, rise up, rise up... Magic at its best.
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