Superwolf

Superwolf
Studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney
Released	January 25, 2005 (2005-01-25)
Length	43:53
Label	Drag City
Producer	Paul Oldham, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Matt Sweeney
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology
Sings Greatest Palace Music (2004) Superwolf (2005) The Brave and the Bold (2006)

Superwolf is a 2005 collaborative studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney. It was released on Drag City.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Cokemachineglow	84% [3]
Dotmusic	8/10 [4]
Paste	[5]
Pitchfork	8.4/10 [6]
Mojo	[7]
Q	[8]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[9]
Uncut	8/10 [10]
Under the Radar	8/10 [11]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ^[1]

Pitchfork placed the album at number 21 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2005" list. ^[12]

In 2007, Spin included Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney on the "Rock's 25 Greatest Team-ups" list. ^[13]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Will Oldham; all music is composed by Matt Sweeney.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"My Home Is the Sea"	5:49
2.	"Beast for Thee"	3:41
3.	"What Are You?"	2:38
4.	"Goat and Ram"	5:15
5.	"Lift Us Up"	2:56
6.	"Rudy Foolish"	4:12
7.	"Bed Is for Sleeping"	2:56
8.	"Only Someone Running"	3:13
9.	"Death in the Sea"	2:38
10.	"Blood Embrace"	7:57
11.	"I Gave You"	2:38

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – vocals, bass guitar, percussion, Nord Lead
• Matt Sweeney – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, Nord Lead
• Peter Townsend – drums
• Sue Schofield – vocals (on "My Home Is the Sea")

Charts

Chart	Peak position
French Albums (SNEP) [14]	191

References

1. "Superwolf by Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved April 14, 2017.
2. Deming, Mark. "Superwolf - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Matt Sweeney". AllMusic . Retrieved April 14, 2017.
3. Hepburn, Peter (January 19, 2005). "Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf". Cokemachineglow . Retrieved April 28, 2025.
4. Nine, Jennifer (January 26, 2005). "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'Superwolf'". Dotmusic . Retrieved April 28, 2025.
5. Superwolf is Americana at its most grim. [Apr/May 2005, p.134]
6. Petrusich, Amanda (January 31, 2005). "Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney: Superwolf". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 14, 2017.
7. Superwolf's arrangements are pretty raw and understated--under-rehearsed, even--but for the better. [Feb 2005, p.102]
8. Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]
9. "Bonnie "Prince" Billy". Tiny Mix Tapes . May 1, 2006. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
10. In this lunar setting, Oldham's visionary, spooked words are lit up with renewed clarity. [Feb 2005, p.78]
11. Superwolf is simultaneously bleak and tender, the kind of album to reveal itself in layers over time. [#9]
12. "Top 50 Albums of 2005 (3/5)". Pitchfork . December 31, 2005. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
13. "Rock's 25 Greatest Team-ups". Spin : 55–59. April 2007.
14. "Lescharts.com – Matt Sweeney %2F Bonnie %27Prince%27 Billy – Superwolf". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 1, 2018.

External links

• Superwolf at Discogs (list of releases)