Superwolf

{{Music ratings

| MC = 80/100{{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}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{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}}

| rev2 = Cokemachineglow

| rev2score = 84%{{cite web|url=http://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}}

| rev3 = Dotmusic

| rev3score = 8/10{{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}}

| rev4 = Paste

| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}Superwolf is Americana at its most grim. [Apr/May 2005, p.134]

| rev5 = Pitchfork

| rev5score = 8.4/10{{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}}

| rev6 = Mojo

| rev6score = {{rating|3.5|5}}Superwolf's arrangements are pretty raw and understated--under-rehearsed, even--but for the better. [Feb 2005, p.102]

| rev7 = Q

| rev7score = {{rating|4|5}}Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]

| rev8 = Tiny Mix Tapes

| rev8score = {{rating|4|5}}{{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}}

| rev9 = Uncut

| rev9score = 8/10In this lunar setting, Oldham's visionary, spooked words are lit up with renewed clarity. [Feb 2005, p.78]

| rev10 = Under the Radar

| rev10score = 8/10Superwolf is simultaneously bleak and tender, the kind of album to reveal itself in layers over time. [#9]

}}

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".

Pitchfork placed the album at number 21 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2005" list.{{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}}

In 2007, Spin included Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney on the "Rock's 25 Greatest Team-ups" list.{{cite journal|title=Rock's 25 Greatest Team-ups|journal=Spin|date=April 2007|pages=55–59}}

{{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

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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")

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