The new album by Bruce Enloe Music is available now on our Bandcamp Page. We think "The Wolf Who Cried Boy" is Bruce's finest work to date. Listen or Download via link above.
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On the night democracy died, in hopes of providing any small measure of comfort he could offer to the world in flames, Bruce Enloe impulsively decided to upload the tracks for his new album ‘The Wolf Who Cried Boy’ a few weeks earlier than anticipated. He describes this album as “meditations on hope in a time of trauma…”
Here is an attempt to give context to the title song and album:
“A wolf crying boy inverts the trope of the boy who cried wolf – where the boy’s repeated overreaction numbs observers to the arrival of a true threat… Inverted? Is it the wolf who numbs the observers to the arrival of a vulnerable child? Is it the threatening entity telling us a truth we may not want or be ready to hear? Is it a boy who says nothing until the wolf is howling in our midst?
In my first pass at the song, the wolf and boy became brothers linked across time and dimension… forever trading roles… each pushing and pulling in a cycle of harm and attempts to warn.. scare… help… abandon…
v.2 (the one on the record) came in a dream – a fully formed story of a man ideating on questions of mortality and meaning… the wolf, it is revealed, (at least in my mind…) is the man, the sparrow, and ultimately, the boy himself.
The album contains 12 songs – in each there is some version of the child and the monster – alternating cries of warning.. howls of terror… the baring of teeth… the revealing of truth…”
Have a listen, will you?
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