(2022) Patricia Wolf - See-Through  


Review:
Previously a member of post-punk unit Soft Metals, Patricia has spent the past few years in pursuit of a more textural and tonal-based sound as Patricia Wolf, as found on the album I’ll Look for You in Others and strewn across multiple compilations. On See-Through she appears at her most shimmering and widescreen in the wake of label albums by Luke Sanger and Hoavi, picking up a thread of illusive atmospheric music and weaving it into her own tapestries of modular synths, plangent desert guitars, field recordings and tempered clouds of reverberating vocals. As with her previous post-punk emulations, Patricia plays well into its conventions and subtly redraws their edges, perhaps most strikingly on ‘The Grotto’, where dark blue-skied guitar meets glossolalic vocals mid-air, and turns into a raga-like lament over its 3 minute lifespan, while ‘A Conversation with My Innocence’ also floats around the shoegaze ambient sweetspot, and ‘The Flâneur’ exemplifies her gossamer touch along with the lush analog wow and flutter of ‘Pacific Coast Highway’, which weaves in drum machine pulses in the closest echo of her former works.


         


Track List:
01 - Woodland Encounter
02 - Under a Glass Bell
03 - The Grotto
04 - The Mechanical Age
05 - A Conversation with My Innocence
06 - Recalibration
07 - The Flâneur
08 - Upward Swimming Fish
09 - Pacific Coast Highway
10 - Wistfulness
11 - Psychic Sweeping
12 - Springtime in Croatia


Media Report:
Genre: ambient
Country: Portland, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits


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