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Superwolves

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Superwolves

Follow-up to their 2005 collaboration from Will Oldham and the Skunk guitarist Matt Sweeney with contributions from Mike Coltun, Souleyman Ibrahim, Ahmoudou Madassane, and Mdou Moctar

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Domino
UK Release date
30/04/2021
US Release date
30/04/2021
  1. 8.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    Defying the odds with an even better LP than the one that preceded it 16 years ago, Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy fire on all cylinders to create the kind of music that engages hearts and minds
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Much like Superwolf many years before it, Superwolves is at its most powerful in its calmest, most clearly articulated moments
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  3. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    On their first joint album in 16 years, the guitarist and singer invite in new collaborators while preserving their uncanny chemistry
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Matt Sweeney's commitment to supply Bonnie "Prince" Billy with "guitar parts that hold his voice like a chalice holds wine" is fully delivered upon here. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    It’s the quieter, more solemn back half of this long album – in particular the delicate “You Can Regret What You Have Done” – that fi nds them leaning on each other like best unbeaten brothers. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    They unwittingly demonstrate that it’s when Oldham and Sweeney are operating as one that Superwolves shows its class
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  7. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    16 years after their original underground classic, Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham reunite for an album that plays like the continuation of a decades-long conversation
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  8. 7.6 |   Beats Per Minute

    Where Superwolf imagined Sweeney and Oldham as blood-splattered riders or jealousy-crazed sailors turning into godless cannibals and sodomites, Superwolves has them sitting on the porch and watching the sun set as their children play in the high grass
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  9. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    This is an album that’s worth your time, full of the rewarding spirit of collaboration, freely delving into deep, un-dreamed of spaces with its honest, fluid, raw and human songwriting
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  10. 5.0 |   Under The Radar

    They’re a highly complementary pair, but their contributions don’t meld in as casual and relaxed a manner as what made their now near-legendary, earlier team-up feel like a warm fleece blanket
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