Patrick Wolf live
Patrick Wolf announces the new album “Crying The Neck”, set for release on April 25, preceded by the single “Dies Irae”, via APPORT / Virgin Music, along with an international tour.
The artist will perform in Milan on Saturday, May 31, 2025 – Milan, Santeria Toscana 31. The tickets for the concert will be available from 11:00 AM on Friday, February 7, on official ticketing platforms. More info and tickets at virusconcerti.com.
After facing addiction, crisis, bankruptcy, recovery, and survival, Patrick Wolf returned to music in 2023 with “The Night Safari”, his first work after ten years lost due to creative block and personal turmoil. Now, with his seventh studio album, “Crying The Neck”, the forty-one-year-old artist has created a hopeful and confident record, inspired by the transformative power of grief following his mother’s death, rehabilitation, local folklore, and the landscapes of East Kent.
The album features Zola Jesus, Serafina Steer, drummer Seb Rochford, and Wolf’s sister, Jo Apps. Alongside the announcement of a major tour across the UK, Europe, and the United States, Wolf has shared the first single, “Dies Irae”, an anthemic “affirmation of life” set in the days before his mother’s passing.
“Crying The Neck”, his first new album in thirteen years and the first of four planned records, was written and recorded in the coastal town of Ramsgate, Kent, where Wolf now calls home. There, in his quiet garden studio, he managed to rediscover his voice. During a period of rebuilding, “Crying The Neck” was entirely written, composed, produced, and arranged by Wolf himself, with Brendan Cox as co-producer and engineer over the last three years, helping to complete an album that had been in the making for a decade. The complexity of the nation, the self, and the grief that “Crying The Neck” embraces is summed up by a recording of writer Vita Sackville-West reading the verse “faith, doubt, perplexity, grief, hope, despair”, from her poem “The Land”. “The quote is important because it signifies acceptance and recognition,” says Wolf.
The album ends on the Foreland Peninsula, looking out over the North Sea, contemplating the fleeting nature of life, but also progress. “I wanted an experienced song at the end, a preparation for the transition to a more urgent mortality,” explains Patrick Wolf. “I feel that I have a certain amount of time left to do the work I want to do and a certain amount of time not to work properly and just live.”
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