Patrick Wolf has shared another track from his upcoming album.
Following Limbo and Dies Irae, Hymn Of The Haar marks the third preview of 'Crying The Neck', the London artist's first full-length release in 13 years, due out on April 25 via Apport/Virgin Music.
Commenting on the new track, which layers his distinctive, emotive vocals with a rich string arrangement, he said:
"I wrote Hymn Of The Haar over three years of writing walks and researching the history and psychogeography of the White Cliffs of Dover near where I live and work in east Kent. Studying from the romantic mythologising aspect of Alice Duer Miller’s work and the cliffs’ famous wartime anthem to observing Dover relentlessly exploited as the centre of ‘crisis’ after ‘crisis’ within the British media. I felt the need to write this, my own private relationship with this beautiful and bewildering stretch of land, bringing me so much solace over the years, its antidote. Ultimately it became a song that accepts, as I have at my age, that we can only learn how to live alongside our sorrows in order to be temporarily free of them, arriving and departing, temporarily obscuring our path and vision in the hymn of the passing mist of cloud, the sea fret, the haar. It was with this song I began to make out a relationship between Crying the Neck and my second album Wind in the Wires, where at 21 I was fighting to be free by being free of my sorrows but 20 years later I finally achieved that freedom in the acceptance of living alongside them. The final line is taken from a 10th Century poem written in Old English called ‘The Wanderer’: ‘Oft him anhaga are gebideð’ translating to ‘Often the solitary one finds mercy’."
Following the record's release, Wolf will embark on a previously scheduled UK and European tour in May and June. He also has North American dates scheduled between September and November. Tickets are on sale now.
Patrick Wolf Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu May 08 2025 - MANCHESTER Gorilla
Fri May 09 2025 - GATESHEAD Glasshouse
Sun May 11 2025 - GLASGOW St Luke's
Tue May 13 2025 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Thu May 15 2025 - LONDON HERE at Outernet
Fri May 16 2025 - BRISTOL Bristol Beacon - Lantern Hall
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