''Wolfroy Goes to Town'' is a studio album by

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. It was released under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy on Drag City in 2011.

Critical reception

Critical response to ''Wolfroy Goes to Town'' was generally positive. At ''

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'', which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an

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score of 76 ("Generally favorable reviews"), based on 21 professional reviews. Anthony Carew, writing for the ''Alt Music Guide'', declared that the album was Oldham's "best, or at least most beautiful, since 1999's ''I See a Darkness''". John Mulvey, in ''

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'', noted that the album's "mood is even more quiet, delicate and sepulchral than that of ''The Wonder Show of the World''", and approved of the sense of "unflinching intimacy, extreme focus... finely-wrought songs whittled down to their essence, then allowed to unravel in the most stately and unhurried way". Writing for ''Dusted'', Joe Bernardi also commented on the album's starkness, suggesting that ''Wolfroy Goes To Town'' is "the sound of a lack, a series of sparse arrangements complementing desolate lyrics about rural desolation... The result makes for a listening experience that’s intense and potentially awkward, but one that also somehow rings true." ''No Ripcords David John Wood compared the album to ''

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'', advising listeners not to "listen in the dark".

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. *

– music, mixing * Ben Boye – electric piano, synthesizer, pump organ, vocals * Van Campbell – drums, percussion * Shahzad Ismaily – percussion, guitar, vocals, mixing *

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– guitar, mandolin, vocals, mixing * Danny Kiely – bass guitar *

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– vocals * Paul Oldham – mastering *

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– illustration * Shane Spaulding – photography * Marko Markewycz – label design * Dan Osborn – layout

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2011 albums Will Oldham albums Drag City (record label) albums Domino Recording Company albums