Patrick Wolf, THE BEAST. Today's bop fuck yeah.
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Patrick Wolf, THE BEAST. Today's bop fuck yeah.
"trust over years you'll wake to find this man who's loved you your whole life" / Bridgens & Peglar / Armistice by Patrick Wolf
PATRICK WOLF + Hymn of the Haar from the album "Crying The Neck" (2025) + On the song Hymn of the Haar and the thread between the albums "Wind in the Wires" (2005) and "Crying the Neck" (2015) + This Weather from the album "Wind in the Wires" (2005) + Foreland from the album "Crying the Neck" (2025)
patrick wolf was so fucking good oh my god
patrickwolf The truth is for many years I prayed for today yet for most I couldn’t even muster a dare to wonder how to wonder how it could even happen again, let alone have the wherewithal to start beating down a path back to this moment. but here we are, my seventh album is here and now and yours. Crying The Neck, released today, this Friday the 13th is Dedicated to my Ma, Imelda Mary Apps who I will visit this morning in her St Bartholomew’s churchyard on the way to Southampton just to say, well, I did it. just as you you always thought I would and there you were, steadfast at my doubt, persisting me to hope. this one’s for you x patrick
"The Beast" by Patrick Wolf
DV:
If anyone had told me four years ago that after a decade's absence we were on the precipice of Patrick Wolf dropping a EP and LP, and that he'd follow the latter up with a new single less than 12 months later - not to mention multiple US tours - I think I might have passed out. But here we are, and if every release still feels a little improbable, well, that sense of the uncanny has never been entirely absent from his work anyway. "The Beast", a song built on the concept of drawing strength from strangeness, dropped the week before Pride Month. It'd feel pointed even if we weren't experiencing a sustained, multi-national attack on queer (especially trans) people. Wolf begins with fairytale imagery, characters trapped in stories they choose to reject - it works, but seems a little too arch up until halfway through when the song makes a sonic turn from the dance pop of the beginning to a sort of deconstructed version of its own production. "I don't owe you an explanation/ Of the nature of the beast that I've become," he intones, his voice low in the mix. The atmosphere ceases to be a party and becomes unsettled, dramatic. So when he croons, "But I'm not the only one/ Yes it's all the rage," Wolf recontextualizes the narratives of the song's first half, transforming them into expressions of comradeship within the queer community. And he turns one of the attack lines deployed against queer people for longer than any of us have been alive - the idea that queerness is contagious, like a meme or a trend - into an expression of power. If queerness is "all the rage," if "we become the beast" (as Wolf says at the end), then it is a threat to the power structure that seeks to eradicate us. What "The Beast" suggests is that we embrace this, rather than seeking to shrink ourselves into a world that will never see us as small enough. It's a defiant anthem for a gayer tomorrow, and while June is young enough that I'm sure we'll hear other attempts, I suspect there isn't a better song for Pride Month 2026.
MG:
Devoted as he is to whimsy and yore, I admire that Patrick Wolf is an artist I can be sure is not using a viral bot-based media scheme to gin up attention for his latest project. It's not a flavor you can specifically taste in his work -- that would be gauche -- but Wolf is profoundly divorced from commerce. In that way, I can't really imagine him intentionally releasing a Pride Month single, but there is a certain rhyming pleasure in his serendipity: a gay anthem for the pride community capitalism left behind.
The Beast - Patrick Wolf Your boots I’m no longer licking Tonight I reclaim my tongue I am not your weapon I’ve been so long worrying What I was doing wrong I forgot my rights You banished me To the border Then you hate What I became to survive No table at the feast But my place is certain You can not spare me the peace So I become the beast
ooc; sent to me by @moral-cipher with the words:
NICKI THEME SONG
It's the blistering combo of just absolutely disgusted cynicism with the world and sort of aggressive idealism.
Plus just. Literally some of the rhetoric is the same 😂
She's not wrong. (Is she ever?)