Patrick Wolf Shares New Video For 'Jupiter'
New Album Crying The Neck Out June 13 via Apport / Virgin Music
USA/Canada Fall Tour
“Beautiful... The album swings between the tender and the bruised throughout, with Wolf’s voice going from a whisper to a soar, all resulting in a most welcome return for this most singular artist.” Uncut – 8/10
May 12, 2025 - New York, NY: Patrick Wolf shares a new video today, 'Jupiter,' the epic string-laden fourth track from from his much-anticipated new album Crying The Neck out June 13 via Apport/Virgin Music.
Wolf says of 'Jupiter': “On the morning of my first 90 days clean, in recovery I woke just before dawn to see a beautiful, rare alignment of planets above the rooftops of Bloomsbury. There was one planet that shone the brightest and after a quick search I discovered it was Jupiter and so the planet and I have formed a relationship since that moment just before morning, taking on the role of watcher and messenger of change and healing for me. I set the song on the outskirts of Kent, the Medway, the line at the edge of the capital that blurs into nowhere, brownfield and becomes Kent, where I explored to the ends for inspiration to write before leaving the city for good.
The whistling noise you hear throughout was the basis of the production, on a hospital visit mid-summer I heard a strange whistle song coming from under a circle of trees and saw a man dressed in a black suit and a wide brim hat and cane, some kind of apparition of solitude that I had to covertly record on my phone and later that day on a loop I wrote the electric tenor guitar part that forms the main song. The final part of the production comes from the voice of Dr Dame Maggie Aderin Pocock who gave me permission to use a recording I took at a lecture she gave in Canterbury. I am so grateful for her to have become the completing part of a song I love so dearly and has seen me through many stages and years of healing and the path back to wonder again since that dawn when I was visited by Jupiter.”
Wolf is presently on a UK and European tour and recently announced USA and Canadian live dates taking place in the fall.
All live dates are listed below. Tickets on sale now. The USA and Canadian wing of the “Stations of The Sun Tour” will see Patrick returning to his very early Lycanthropy days of touring the states in the back of his Tennessee manager's car, yet this time driving himself coast to coast with a car full of instruments on what is set to be a solo roadtrip of an adventure, re-connecting to an audience not seen for a decade and meet those who’ve discovered his work in the meantime. The setlist will span both his best known work and the new album, acknowledging the twenty year anniversary of his much loved second album Wind in the Wires and exploring its relationship to Crying the Neck. Some nights of the tour will be seated and some will be standing, so Wolf is developing two shows for the tour, one to explore his more electronic work, conjuring the magic of his beat-driven setlists and seated evenings that will lend themselves more to the classical, electro-acoustic and folk roots of his work.
The aftermath of addiction, crisis, bankruptcy, recovery and survival shaped The Night Safari, Patrick Wolf’s 2023 return to music after ten years lost to creative impasse and personal upheaval. Now, with seventh studio album Crying The Neck, the 41-year-old has created a confident and hopeful record inspired by the transfiguring power of grief at the death of his mother, rehabilitation, local folklore and the East Kentish landscape.
Crying The Neck is the first new album in thirteen years and the first in a planned four album series, was written and recorded in the Kent coastal town of Ramsgate that Wolf now calls home. Here, he has a peaceful studio in the garden, the place in which he was able to find his voice again. In a period of rebuilding, Crying The Neck was entirely written, composed, produced and arranged by Wolf himself, with Brendan Cox brought in as co-producer and engineer in the last three years to help finish an album a decade in the making.
Patrick Wolf is one of the most talented and idiosyncratic musicians of his generation, with a run of critically hailed albums, starting with Lycanthropy in 2003 to Lupercalia in 2011 which saw him incorporating everything from viola, celtic harp, dulcimer, baritone ukulele, piano, harpsichord, analog synthesizers and re-sampled field recordings in his music and collaborating with the likes of Marianne Faithfull, Tilda Swinton, Angelo Badalamenti and Patti Smith, among others. He most recently released The Night Safari EP two years ago was his first body of work in ten years and Crying The Neck is his first studio album in thirteen years.
Live Dates:
UK/EU
May 10 - Gateshead, UK - The Glasshouse
May 11 - Glasgow, UK - St Luke’s
May 13 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
May 15 - London, UK - HERE at Outernet
May 16 - Bristol, UK - The Lantern
May 20 - Cologne, DE - Gebaude 9
May 21 - Hamburg, DE - Grunspan
May 22 - Leipzig, DE - UT Connewitz
May 23 - Berlin, DE - Heimathafen
May 24 - Warsaw, PL - Niebo
May 26 - Ghent, BE - Club Wintercircus
May 27 - Amsterdam, NL - Tolhuistuin
May 28 - Paris, FR - Trabendo
May 29 - Zurich, CH - Dynamo
May 31 - Milan - IT - Santeria Toscana 31
June 1 - Bologna. IT - Locomotiv
June 3 - Munich, DE - Ampere
June 4 - Prague, CZ - Lucerna Music Bar
June 6 - Vienna, AT - Theater Akzent
North America
September 17 - Vancouver, Canada - Fox Cabaret
September 20 - Seattle, WA - Woodlawn Hall
September 24 - Portland, OR - Mission Theatre
September 27 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Lodge
October 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
October 9 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
October 12 - Las Vegas, NV - The Griffin
October 16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
October 19 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
October 23 - Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
October 25 - Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel
October 28 - St Paul, MN - Amsterdam Hall
October 30 - Milwaukee, WI - X-Ray Arcade
September 20 - Seattle, WA - Woodlawn Hall
September 24 - Portland, OR - Mission Theatre
September 27 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Lodge
October 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
October 9 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
October 12 - Las Vegas, NV - The Griffin
October 16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
October 19 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
October 23 - Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
October 25 - Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel
October 28 - St Paul, MN - Amsterdam Hall
October 30 - Milwaukee, WI - X-Ray Arcade
November 1 - Chicago, IL - Gman Tavern
November 3 - Ferndale (Detroit), MI - The Magic Bag
November 6 - Toronto, Canada - Longboat Hall
November 10 - Somerville, MA - Center of The Arts Armory
November 13 - New York, NY - Adler Hall
November 15- Philadelphia, PA - World Cage Live Lounge
November 19- Washington, DC - Pearl Street
November 6 - Toronto, Canada - Longboat Hall
November 10 - Somerville, MA - Center of The Arts Armory
November 13 - New York, NY - Adler Hall
November 15- Philadelphia, PA - World Cage Live Lounge
November 19- Washington, DC - Pearl Street
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