{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Superwolf | type = studio | artist = Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney | cover = Superwolf_albumcover.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = {{Start date|2005|01|25}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = | length = {{Duration|m=43|s=53}} | label = Drag City | producer = Paul Oldham, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Matt Sweeney | chronology = Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | prev_title = Sings Greatest Palace Music | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = The Brave and the Bold | next_year = 2006 }} '''''Superwolf''''' is a 2005 collaborative studio album by Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney. It was released on Drag City.
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | MC = 80/100<ref name=metacritic>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/superwolf/bonnie-prince-billy-and-matt-sweeney|title=Superwolf by Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney|work=Metacritic|publisher=CBS Interactive|access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/superwolf-mw0000363531|title=Superwolf - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Matt Sweeney|work=AllMusic|first=Mark|last=Deming|access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Cokemachineglow'' | rev2score = 84%<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915062601/http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/627/bonnieprincebillyandmattsweeney-superwolf-2005|title=Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf|website=Cokemachineglow|last=Hepburn|first=Peter|date=January 19, 2005|access-date=April 28, 2025}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Dotmusic'' | rev3score = 8/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311082221/http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/050126/33/1xiea.html|title=Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - 'Superwolf'|website=Dotmusic|last=Nine|first=Jennifer|date=January 26, 2005|access-date=April 28, 2025}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Paste'' | rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>Superwolf is Americana at its most grim. [Apr/May 2005, p.134]</ref> | rev5 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev5score = 8.4/10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/703-superwolf/|title=Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney: Superwolf|work=Pitchfork|first=Amanda|last=Petrusich|date=January 31, 2005|access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> | rev6 = ''Mojo'' | rev6score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Superwolf's arrangements are pretty raw and understated--under-rehearsed, even--but for the better. [Feb 2005, p.102]</ref> | rev7 = ''Q'' | rev7score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]</ref> | rev8 = ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' | rev8score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060501234620/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/b/bonnie_prince_billy.htm|title=Bonnie "Prince" Billy|website=Tiny Mix Tapes|date=May 1, 2006|access-date=April 28, 2025}}</ref> | rev9 = ''Uncut'' | rev9score = 8/10<ref>In this lunar setting, Oldham's visionary, spooked words are lit up with renewed clarity. [Feb 2005, p.78]</ref> | rev10 = ''Under the Radar'' | rev10score = 8/10<ref>Superwolf is simultaneously bleak and tender, the kind of album to reveal itself in layers over time. [#9]</ref> }} 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".<ref name=metacritic/>
''Pitchfork'' placed the album at number 21 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2005" list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/6222-top-50-albums-of-2005/?page=3|title=Top 50 Albums of 2005 (3/5)|work=Pitchfork|date=December 31, 2005|access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref>
In 2007, ''Spin'' included Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney on the "Rock's 25 Greatest Team-ups" list.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rock's 25 Greatest Team-ups|journal=Spin|date=April 2007|pages=55–59}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_lyrics = Will Oldham | all_music = Matt Sweeney | title1 = My Home Is the Sea | length1 = 5:49 | title2 = Beast for Thee | length2 = 3:41 | title3 = What Are You? | length3 = 2:38 | title4 = Goat and Ram | length4 = 5:15 | title5 = Lift Us Up | length5 = 2:56 | title6 = Rudy Foolish | length6 = 4:12 | title7 = Bed Is for Sleeping | length7 = 2:56 | title8 = Only Someone Running | length8 = 3:13 | title9 = Death in the Sea | length9 = 2:38 | title10 = Blood Embrace | length10 = 7:57 | title11 = I Gave You | length11 = 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== {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;" border="1" !scope="col"| Chart !scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|France|191|artist=Matt Sweeney %2F Bonnie %27Prince%27 Billy|album=Superwolf|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 1, 2018}} |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Discogs master|8111|Superwolf}}
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Category:2005 collaborative albums Category:Will Oldham albums Category:Drag City (record label) albums Category:Domino Recording Company albums