Patrick Wolf's debut album marks a transition from boyhood to adulthood, says Luke Turner, but now, just 20 years later, it forms an impossibly distant seeming time capsule of a different capital
For centuries, London has played the role of enabler, but also seducer and corrupter, of the young in search of liberation, work, love, fame or fortune. The delicious anonymity of ancient, uncaring streets is a place where a transaction of self-reinvention might take place, where innocence is traded for risk, the sensitivity of childhood for a rougher arrogance that masks our insecurities. This is the dialogue between city and self that Patrick Wolf turned into his remarkable 2003 album ,Lycanthropy, a record that, given the soaring rents and corporate...
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