Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Patrick Wolf: "The Magic Position"

Video: Patrick Wolf: "The Magic Position"

Just yesterday Brett Gladstone said this about the first single and title track from Patrick Wolf's album The Magic Position:

All the desire for sex and intimacy that used to lurk in the margins of his music is now worn proudly on his sleeve, and where his Bjork-like soundscaping once aimed for subtlety and atmosphere, this track is a candy-coated pop toy filled with all types of sonic springs and levers: Hand-claps, squealing kiddie-choirs, bouncy strings, and a steadily ascending xylophone all cleanly interlock with a thumping dance rhythm and one cheeky double-entendre of a chorus.

The video is also candy-coated, colorful dream. Wolf enters and exits random tableaux and dance sequences in this clip, which looks like it was inspired by a Technicolor musical. There are even a few costume changes-- Wolf stars out in a shirt that matches his hair color perfectly, then ends in some sort of peasant garb. It's purposefully overdone, right down to the last beat, when a Wolf makes a bird magically appear in his hands, then lets it fly right up to the viewer.