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Silly Wizard's Phil Cunningham, who produced the album and added some accordion, helped Wolfstone retain the springy lilt of Celtic dance music even as they added more power to their punch. Unfortunately, the impact of this hybrid sound is at times blunted by the overreaching songwriting of singer Ivan Drever and fiddler Dave Chisholm, who too often adopt the unfocused bombast of such prog-rock bands as Yes and Jethro Tull. On Drever's rousing political anthem, "The Brave Foot Soldiers," however, and on Cunningham's lively instrumental medley, "The Double Rise," Wolfstone display the potential to cross over from folk to pop--and back again. --Geoffrey Himes
| ARTIST: | Wolfstone |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Green Linnet |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Holy Ground, Ballavanich, Sea King, Brave Foot Soldiers, Double Rise Set, White Gown, Morag's Reels, Braes of Sutherland, Dinner's Set |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 048248114523 |
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Customer Reviews of Year of the Dog
Yikes. I have most of Wolfstone's cds, I got into them while still in High School (about 7 years ago). Since then, my tastes have changed considerably. If you were to have me review this cd back then, I still would have been very disappointed in it, and I really liked classic rock.
What's wrong with it? PLENTY. The most distressing thing to me, hands down were the terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE lyrics. I'm not an English major or anything, but I think we can all agree that a synthesizer driven song about the KKK ("white gown") seems extremely out of place and completely inappropriate (and the final results are disasterous).
The guitar is mainly put in to give it that "rock" sound that they were supposed to have, but fell short of for this album. These guys need to lose their producer, it's too slick. . .they'd sound better if I recorded them in my room with my 4-track; less cheesy at any rate.
To sum up: Wolfstone's instrumental work is vastly superior to the songs where that creepy looking guy sings (exceptions being a few songs on unleashed and the chase), and this is especially true of this album.
A good offering from a Celtic FOLK Rock band!
(4.5 stars actually) This Wolfstone disc shows a marked change in style from the more Rock edged Celtic stuff of their first two discs, with a return to their folkier roots...still though, it has power and rocks...the songwriting and playing is stronge...this one is actually one of my favs - worth checking out!...
Dog
This album would more appropriaely be titled "Dog". On the back of the CD it says "file under Celtic Rock." It SHOULD say "file under New Age Elevator Music" (on a copy of this CD I had obtained from the library, someone wrote on it "Bad New Age" which is a perfect description). This resembles "Celtic Rock" about as much as Barry Manilow resembles Led Zeppelin. First, for an album purporting to "rock", the guitar is badly undermixed so as to render its impact impotent. Most disappointingly, the problem I have with this CD is the same problem I have with much of Wolfstone's music: they seem to have become obsessed with a soft-airy-modern-jazz-New-Age-synthesizer-elevator-music sound which is way overused and dominates much too often. Their formula for "modernizing" folk music seems to be to add occasional electric guitar and this almost constant, cheesy, fogey, annoying synthesizer sound. Resultingly, much of their catalogue is unlistenable. The only song on this CD which has any potential at all is "Sea King", which sounds like it is going to build up to something grand and powerful - but then there's no payoff; it simply and disappointingly just ends. The best Wolfstone album by far is their first one, "Unleashed", where the New-Age hokum is kept to a minimum and resultingly there are some phenomonal songs. Their second album, The Chase" is pretty good in spots but that awful synthesizer sound creeps in more and more. "Dog" is their third album and is totally dominated by the fogey sound, which overpowers all the other instruments. The rockier songs on "Half Tail" are quite good, as well as the folkier songs which keep the newfound toy to a minimum. Overall, Wolfstone is definitely a mixed bag - if you could take all the Wolfstone songs without this hokey elevator-music synthesizer sound, you would have a pretty good collection, but you would have to buy all their CDs and pick and choose the few safe songs from each CD to do this; a costly endeavor indeed. Much of Wolfstone's music could be sold to supermarket chains throughout Scotland for shoppers to listen to while doing their grocery shopping. Oh well, at least Wolfstone doesn't use that awful programmed-synthesized-fake-drum-beat-sound that so many others in this genre use to try to "modernize" folk music...