Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Wolfroy Goes to Town – review

(Domino)The cover is a cartoon and New Tibet opens with the typically provocative line "As boys we fuck each other," but Will Oldham aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 21st solo album isn't another example of the wayward muse that has led the alt-country kingpin into soft-rock and standup. If anything, it's a return to the desolate beauty of 1999's landmark album I See a Darkness. With Oldham's melancholy vocal occasionally cast against the sweetly anguished Angel Olsen, the songs ponder God and humani...

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