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Patrick Wolf by Furmaan Ahmed
Patrick Wolf’s EP is out now.
Patrick Wolf has swiftly followed up this year’s Crying The Neck album with the release of a new EP entitled Better Or Worse.
The EP comprises three alternate versions of the titular Crying The Neck track, along side the brand new song Hymne D’Étranger and a cover of the Irish folk standard She Didn’t Dance.
“Better or Worse is a short, but as powerful as I could write, little anthem of empowerment and healing that I began writing on my mountain dulcimer for my best friend who was going through a brutal divorce and lost her mother to cancer three years after I lost mine,” Wolf has said.
The writing turned into advice from both our mothers in the end. All the folklore of the east Kent tradition of The Hooden Horse and its metaphor of resurrection sits as the core mythology of the song. Spanish is a language I’ve always adored listening to in music and speaking since I was a teenager when I first learnt it, I’ve got my own tutor now to get to the place I would love with speaking and singing.
