Patrick Wolf - Crying The Neck [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: APPORTCD06
Barcode: 0198704295409
Release Date: 13 Jun 2025
Genre: Folk

 With his seventh album ‘Crying The Neck’, 41-year-old multi- instrumentalist and composer Patrick Wolf has created a confident, uplifting and hopeful record inspired by the transfiguring power of grief at the death of his mother, folklore, the Kentish landscape, and the state of England. On this album, Patrick brings in long term friends Zola Jesus, Serafina Steer and Seb Rochford to provide guest appearances.
 The first in a planned four-album series, ‘Crying The Neck’ was written and recorded in the Kent coastal town Patrick now calls home. As well as the album’s release, 2025 will
also see the release of a BFI funded feature-length documentary film about his life.
 Across his first six albums, Patrick established himself as a much loved and respected artist. He is known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments.
 The CD edition comes, after a moments silence, with three ‘instrumental’ versions chosen by Patrick as works of composition and string arrangement that he felt needed to be heard alongside the album song versions, ‘The Curfew Bell’ and ‘Lughnasa’ heard here composed and recorded as one piece of music in its sprawling multiple time
signatures and keys and the backing to ‘Foreland’ composed as a duet between two string quartets.
 Gatefold CD with two fold-out lyric and credit pages with a square poster size image by Furmaan Ahmed on the reverse, plus bonus instrumental tracks.
 180g coloured double vinyl - Disc 1 is Harvest Ochre, Disc 2 is Umber Soil - in a gatefold LP with two printed pull-out sleeves featuring Furmaan Ahmed photographs, lyrics and full detailed album credits.

Tracklisting
‘Crying The Neck’
Reculver
Limbo (ft. Zola Jesus)
The Last of England
Jupiter
On Your SIde
Oozlum
Dies Irae
The Curfew Bell
Lughnasa (ft. Serafina Steer)
Song of the Scythe
Better or Worse
Hymn of the Haar
Foreland

Bonus Tracks (APPORTCD06 Only)
The Curfew Bell + Lughnasa Foreland