Critics Praise Patrick Watson's New Album 'Wooden Arms'

NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Montreal-based band Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms have earned new fans among US critics with their gorgeous new album 'Wooden Arms,' out May 5. A follow-up to 2007's Polaris Prize winning album 'Close to Paradise,' 'Wooden Arms' utilizes the band's "experimental without machines" approach to craft their most ambitious recording to date.

The record is already No 2 on iTunes Canada and the nation's largest daily, The Toronto Star, called it "jaw dropping... cracked-mirror pop music... a lustrously tuneful bid for the fringes that any mainstream curiosity has no choice but to follow."

Here's what early US reviews are saying about 'Wooden Arms:'

"I've found a new musical love and his name is Patrick Watson."
- Bob Boilen, NPR Online All Songs Considered, April 27, 2009

"A meandering path of Puckish enthusiasm and Jeff Buckley warmth... More ambitious than on past efforts, Watson slips through quiet night spaces... Wooden Arms flares with his vibrant energy."
- Stacey Anderson, SPIN Magazine, April 29, 2009

"Buzzworthy... a beguiling, bewitching treat, like absinthe-laced gumdrops: part rickety graveyard waltz, part hand-over-heart chamber pop, part avante garde piano theater."
- Leah Greenblatt, EW Online's Artists We Like, April 24, 2009

"Exquisite and thrilling... Achingly beautiful... Gloriously explosive... Wow."
- David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2009

"['Wooden Arms' is] impressively layered with all the strings and keys, piercing solar vocals, and expansions of a small circus"
- Village Voice, April 29, 2009

"His voice hovers around the mystical midpoint between Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Antony & The Johnsons' Antony Hegarty."
- Glenn Gamboa, Newsday, May 5, 2009

Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms Spring 2009 Tour Dates:
May 8 Los Angeles, CA Hotel Cafe
May 9 San Francisco, CA Cafe du Nord
May 11 Portland, OR Doug Fir
May 12 Seattle, WA Crocodile Cafe

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