Patrick Wolf 's New Album' Crying The Neck' Out Today - USA/Canada Fall Tour

 

 

 

 

Patrick Wolf Releases New Album

Crying The Neck Out Today via Apport / Virgin Music

USA/Canada Fall Tour 

 

 

June 13, 2025 -  New York, NY: Patrick Wolf's new album Crying The Neck is out today via Apport/Virgin Music to widespread critical acclaim as well as inclusion in NPR's All Songs Considered New Music Friday Playlist.

"A riveting record rich with cathartic honesty..."

Clash

 

“An album of startling beauty... A glorious return from one of our most distinctive artists.”

MusicOMH – 4 stars ****

 

“Monumental... genius... A cathartic, erudite, and complex work that serves as the beginning of a new chapter for Wolf.”

The Quietus

 

“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

 

“A song cycle drawing a line between Rufus Wainwright maximalism and The Waterboys... Breathtaking.”

MOJO – 4 stars ****

 

“Epic comeback from the prince of orchestral art-pop. It’s as widescreen as anything he’s done.” Record Collector – 4 stars ****

 

“A complex treatise on seasonal life in Britain... At the heart of it all is a hopeful study of overcoming grief, wrapped in the language of folkloric ritual.”

The Times – 4 stars ****

 

“Patrick Wolf continues to imbue his grandiose chamber pop with a forward-thinking modern twist... Listeners can marvel at the sheer brio of Wolf’s ambition, sending the tunes rocketing skywards into some hitherto uncharted astral plain... Crying The Neck is fabulous and quite remarkable.” Rock’n’Reel – 4 stars ****

 

“Staggeringly beautiful... A collection of intensely personal songs detailing addiction and the loss of his mother while also looking outwards and making the personal political... A remarkable collection which may be his best work to date.”

NARC – 9/10

 

“Glorious... One of the finest singers of the modern generation... This album is a really accomplished feat of studio brilliance and lovingly crafted melodies.”

Echoes and Dust

 

“Wolf remains one of the most gifted artists of his generation... he’s at the peak of his powers... Crying The Neck finds him getting into his stride again.”

The Line Of Best Fit

 

 'The Last Of England' is the fifth song to be shared from the album after 'Dies Irae,' 'Limbo,' 'Hymn Of The Haar' and 'Jupiter.'  

Watch 'The Last Of England' on YouTube:

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, his 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. 

The complexity of nationhood, personhood and grief that Crying The Neck embraces is summed up by the appearance on the album of a the recording of the writer Vita Sackville-West reading the line “faith, doubt, perplexity, grief, hope, despair”, from her poem ‘The Land’. “The quote is important because it’s acceptance and acknowledgement,” says Wolf. Crying The Neck finishes on the Foreland peninsula, looking out over the North Sea, reflecting on the transience of life, but also progress. “I wanted a song of experience at the end, a preparation for a shift into a more urgent mortality,” Patrick Wolf explains. “I do feel like I have a certain amount of time left, to do the work that I want to do, and a certain amount of time left to not do the work as well, and to live.”

Additionally, Wolf has announced a number of solo, acoustic instore appearances to celebrate the album’s release including a Rough Trade East performance on June 19 as well as a return to North America and Canada for the first time in over a decade. All dates are listed below:

 

 

Live Dates: 

UK

June 13 – Southampton – Vinilo

June 14 – Brighton – Resident

June 15 – Cardiff – HMV

June 17 – Nottingham – Rough Trade

June 18 – Liverpool – Jaracanda (with band)

June  19– London – Rough Trade East

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

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