Wolves and Wishes is the fourth full-length musical album by Dosh

Dosh

Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh , known in music as Dosh, is a musician and multi-instrumentalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an artist, Dosh is a percussionist uses various electronics, often with a Fender Rhodes...

, released on 13 May 2008 on the anticon. label. The album features appearances from Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy

Will Oldham

Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...

, Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...

, and Marshall LaCount and Nona Marie Invie from the band Dark Dark Dark

Dark Dark Dark

Dark Dark Dark is an American chamber folk band based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Formed in 2006, the band has toured extensively in the United States and Europe and is known for their blend of New Orleans jazz, Americana, Eastern European folk and pop sensibilities.In 2008 Dark Dark Dark...

; as well as Fog

Fog (band)

Fog is a band fronted by Andrew Broder, which includes members Mark Erickson and Tim Glenn. For most of their existence, material released by Fog had been produced largely by Broder alone, combining both traditionally performed instruments and turntable-derived samples, until the switch to a...

, labelmates Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD ; he has worked closely with Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project and remixed tracks by a variety of...

, and long-time contributors, Mike Lewis

Michael Lewis (musician)

Mike Lewis is a Minnesota saxophonist and bassist. He is currently playing saxophone in Fat Kid Wednesdays and Happy Apple.Lewis also plays electric bass in Alpha Consumer and Red Start. He has also contributed to other projects, such as Dosh's 2006 LP The Lost Take, 2008's Wolves and Wishes, and...

 and Jeremy Ylvisaker

Jeremy Ylvisaker

Jeremy Ylvisaker is a Minneapolis-based musician. Ylvisaker fronts the band Alpha Consumer. He plays guitar in Andrew Bird's touring band band alongside fellow Minnesotans Dosh and Alpha Consumer bassist Mike Lewis....

. Being a collaborator with Andrew Bird, Dosh used the percussion heard in "First Impossible" in an Andrew Bird song: "Not a Robot, but a Ghost" from Bird's 2009 album Noble Beast

Noble Beast

Noble Beast is American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird's fifth solo studio album released on January 20, 2009. Two songs from this album were previewed on his webpage, "Oh No" and "Carrion Suite", while the entire album was made available by NPR as a streaming feed...

.

Track listing

1. "Don't Wait for the Needle to Drop" – 3:31
2. "Bury the Ghost" – 3:58
3. "If You Want to, You Have To" – 4:43
4. "First Impossible" – 8:59
5. "Kit and Pearle" – 4:00
6. "Wolves" – 3:59
7. "Food Cycles" – 3:07
8. "Keep Up Appearance" – 3:10
9. "The Magic Stick" – 3:21
10. "Capture the Flag" – 5:18

External links

• anticon. Store Page with Album Details