Patrick Wolf - Vulture

With over two years having passed since the release of his last single, The Magic Position, it’s reassuring to find Patrick Wolf still in the process of a musical evolution with seemingly no endpoint in sight. Currently favouring sex-club synths and NiN-styled industrialism, Vulture is almost entirely unrecognisable from the vantage of earlier works such as the multi-instrumental poetry of Middle England on 2005's Wind In The Wires. Having a reputation as being prolific and something of an innovator, it seems essential for Wolf to maintain a forward momentum. However, innovative though it is, Vulture seems just a little debased in the light of his earlier works.