Patrick Wolf shares “Limbo” ft. Zola Jesus, announces first North American tour in 12 years

Patrick Wolf‘s first album in 13 years, Crying the Neck, arrives next month, and he’s given us another preview of it with “Limbo,” which features Zola Jesus. “I first started imagining a limbo – or purgatory – to set a song in after seeing a painting ‘The Scapegoat’ by William Holman Hunt in the Manchester art gallery,” Wolf says. “Years later on bleak lockdown weekly food drives to Bromley and the arguments and tensions in a relationship that brewed in the claustrophobia of the car made me want to begin writing a duet about the realism of a couple cutting off each other’s sentences and debating whether to persist with or escape each other. I reset the song to a strip of road in Thanet where I live with the couple now fugitive from the shadow of a country on the brink of war and with the painting from the Manchester gallery in my head, the land unfurled to the purgatory of the scapegoat and the rainbow, which I have our couple pulling up to as a roadside inn for the night in the song. So much of Crying The Neck is a series of responses to decay, death or loss, this song is the lovers’ response to a relationship in limbo and the only song on the album about a romantic relationship. I have adored Zola’s work since her first Stridulum album and we have been pen friends since 2011. As I finished writing the song here by the quiet of the sea and seeing pictures of her own wilderness of woodland where she lives now in Wisconsin, I felt we were aligned somewhat in spirit at this point of our work. It was only her voice I imagined to duet with me and now I can’t imagine anyone else riding shotgun beside me on this our summer gothic road trip of a song.”

Wolf also announced his first North American tour in twelves years, which follows shows in Europe and the UK in May and June. According to the press release, “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.” See all dates below.

The NYC shows is at Adler Hall @ The New York Society for Ethical Culture on November 13. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 21 at 10 AM local.

Zola Jesus also has a North American solo piano tour coming up.

PATRICK WOLF: 2025 TOUR DATES
May 8 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
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
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 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