Patrick Wolf announces first album in 13 years, shares “Dies Irae”
‘Crying the Neck’ is out April 13 and Patrick says it’s the “first of a four album project that will work it’s way around the celtic wheel of the year.”
Patrick Wolf, a mainstay of ’00s-era indie, has announced his first album in 13 years. It’s titled Crying the Neck and will be out April 25 via APPORT/Virgin Music. (It follows 2023’s The Night Safari EP which was his first music of any kind in a decade.) Wolf says it’s “set between the months of July and September in East Kent and the first of a four album project that will work its way around the celtic wheel of the year.”
Here’s more about the album from Patrick: “Within these months of Lughnasa and Mabon on Crying the Neck I began processing a decade of life that brought me the greatest challenges of my life so far, recovery, rehabilitation, bankruptcy and the long wrestle with cancer and passing of my mother one august which forms the centre narrative structure of the album. Importantly too this a love letter to the land and it’s folklore I set up home to begin again within by the north sea coast of East Kent, the album begins with the arrival to ‘the island’ of Thanet and finishes in the water of bay at the end of my road I swim in each day over summer.”
You can listen to “Dies Irae” which finds Patrick still in fine high drama form. The title comes from Latin Requiem Mass and translates to “the day of wrath.” Wolf recontextualizes here, calling it “an affirmation of life in the last days of knowing you are about to lose someone you love, and a courageous – almost rebellious – choice against the misery to use the time remaining to deepen your love or joy with each other.” Listen below.
Patrick has also announced a UK/EU tour happening in May and June and those dates are listed below.
Crying The Neck:
1. Reculver
2. Limbo
3. The Last Of England
4. Jupiter
5. On Your Side
6. OOZLUM
7. Dies Irae
8. The Curfew Bell
9. Lughnasa
10. Song Of The Scythe
11. Better Or Worse
12. Hymn Of The Haar
13. Foreland
Patrick Wolf – 2025 UK & EU Tour:
May 8 – Manchester – Gorilla
May 10 – Gateshead – The Glasshouse
May 11 – Glasgow – St Luke’s
May 13 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
May 15 – London – HERE at Outernet
May 16 – Bristol – The Lantern
May 20 – Cologne – Gebaude 9
May 21 – Hamburg – Grunspan
May 22 – Leipzig – UT Connewitz
May 23 – Berlin – Heimathafen
May 24 – Warsaw – Niebo
May 26 – Ghent – Club Wintercircus
May 27 – Amerstam – Tolhuistuin
May 28 – Paris – Trabendo
May 29 – Zurich – Dynamo
May 31 – Milan – Santeria Toscana 31
June 1 – Bologna – Locomotiv
June 3 – Munich – Ampere
June 4 – Prague – Lucerna Music Bar
June 6 – Vienna – Theater Akzent
