THE PORTABLE INFINITE: Patrick Wolf Shares New Video For 'The Last Of England' - New Album Crying The Neck Out Friday via Apport / Virgin Music

6/10/2025

Patrick Wolf Shares New Video For 'The Last Of England' - New Album Crying The Neck Out Friday via Apport / Virgin Music - USA/Canada Fall Tour

Patrick Wolf Shares New Video For 'Last Of England'

New Album Crying The Neck Out Friday 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,
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 ****

“Patrick Wolf continues to imbue his grandiose chamber pop with a forward-thinking modern twist... 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

June 10, 2025 - New York, NY: Patrick Wolf shares a new video today for 'The Last Of England,' a song that Patrick has described as his “national anthem” and opens with a sample of Aleister Crowley reading his sermon “The Great Beast Speaks”. The video was filmed on location in Dungeness in homage to Derek Jarman’s film from which the track takes its name.

The track is from Wolf's much-anticipated new album Crying The Neck out this Friday via Apport/Virgin Music. The set has already received great acclaim from the likes of MOJO, Uncut, Record Collector and more. 'The Last Of England' is the fifth song to be shared from the album after 'Dies Irae,' 'Limbo,' 'Hymn Of The Haar' and 'Jupiter.'

Commenting on the track Wolf says: "'The Last of England' is the third song on Crying the Neck, an album which I’ve realised now is a series of responses to loss, decay and death. Here, on this song, what I’ve been calling my own personal national anthem, is my investigation into the sense of loss of national identity and search for belonging and purpose in England that I observed across the country in the years after the referendum vote of June 2016. I saw how in many quarters of the country, groundswells of folk revivalism started springing up in the art and culture people were making and in others a descent into a desolate and patriotic ghost of the empire England. I wanted to write a ballad for this new chapter of the country, in compassion on the now again so small, disorientated island of Britain, wondering who and what it is anymore. It was originally a banger of a song and meant to be a dance track but at the last minute I stripped all the rhythm off the production to make this rightfully bleak folkloric anthem or hymn for England. The song is named after the Derek Jarman film, which I felt was a series of patriotic provocations and questions to the viewer and beautiful in the way it gave no answers or solutions. I was halfway through writing it when I wondered If I could finish a song which in many ways acts as a lyrical sequel or 21st century afterword to that great film, so I asked Tilda Swinton, the female protagonist of the film, if my lyrics were going in the correct, respectful direction and she gave her encouragement and blessing for me to finish the rest of the song as you hear it today.”

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. All dates are listed below:

Live Dates:

June 12 – Kingston – St Johns Church

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