Patrick Wolf shares a new single today, an anthemic duet featuring Zola Jesus entitled ‘Limbo.’ The track is the second single from his much-anticipated new album Crying The Neck out June 13 via Apport/Virgin Music.

Additionally, Wolf is announcing USA and Canadian live dates, his first visit stateside in twelve years to follow his UK and EU shows. All live dates are listed below. Tickets on sale Friday March 21. The USA and Canadian wing of the “Stations of The Sun Tour” will see Patrick returning to his very early Lycanthropy days of touring the states in the back of his Tennessee manager’s car, yet this time driving himself coast to coast with a car full of instruments on what is set to be a solo roadtrip of an adventure, re-connecting to an audience not seen for a decade and meet those who’ve discovered his work in the meantime. The setlist will span both his best known work and the new album, acknowledging the twenty year anniversary of his much loved second album Wind in the Wires and exploring its relationship to Crying the Neck. 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.

Commenting on the new single ‘Limbo,’ Patrick Wolf says: “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. 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.”