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The Night Safari EP

Electronic / Rock

April 19, 2023

Patrick Wolf ’s resounding baritone easily conjures up gravitas, lending his best songs a combined air of theatricality and raw emotion. The English musician’s first two records were tightly wound, explosive with pent-up angst, and beguiling in their ornate instrumentation, poetic lyrics, and damaged electronics; when Wolf trended toward a more mainstream sound—as on his last album of new material, 2011’s disco-spangled, lovesick  Lupercalia —he traded the strange charms of his early work for the ill-fitting patina of generic radio pop. Management and A&R troubles made things even more complicated for the London singer-songwriter. (“If I think about  Lupercalia now,” he  said recently, “it’s like hands around my neck.”) Wolf’s 2012  acoustic album of reworked songs became a way of cleaning the slate that also, as the years went on, looked more and more like a career sendoff.

Wolf’s first new music in over a decade, then, has baggage to unpack.  The Night Safari EP was crafted out of an intense period of personal upheaval, including bankruptcy, a struggle with addiction, and the passing of his mother. Wolf understandably turns inward, purging bouts of anxiety and depression through diffuse, melancholy electro-folk. It’s a welcome return to his earlier sound, embellished throughout with electronic wrinkles and the deep, rich tones of his viola. Early standout “Nowhere Game” clips by with clattering percussion and pitch-shifted vocal rhythms, capturing the cyclical nature of addiction in references to “the danger that keeps you alive”: “Dying to be living proof/Of something survived in your youth,” he sings mournfully over the chugging beat, adding to its acute sense of hopelessness.

The title track further recalls the sullen music of his early breakthroughs. Here, Wolf creates a gentle build of plucked Celtic harp over an eddying piano melody for a disquieting look at those late-night moments in bed when your mind chews over every anxious thought imaginable. “Don’t you lose sleep/Pay no mind to me unraveling,” he pleads as the song loosens into a digitized, cut-up rhythm. It’s a more successful approach to playing with familiar sounds than “Archeron,” which uses a 7/8 time signature to evoke a fractured headspace; Wolf delivers a cryptic, chanted monologue inspired by novelist  Robert Graves amid ominous organs and strings, jerking back and forth between quiet and bombast. It’s effective in its jarring delivery, but feels stiff and out of step with the rest of the EP’s carefully arranged tableaux.

Still, Wolf’s ear for melody and imagistic lyrics remain strong, knifelike features of his music. Although  The Night Safari ’s sweeping dramas can be dour, Wolf’s voice, sonorous and commanding, is only growing finer with age. On “Dodona,” with its gorgeously cinematic viola solo and sorrowful piano, Wolf is at his most moving, stretching his voice from a low growl to a scratchy, throaty high. “His tongue is rattling,” Wolf sings of his protagonist, a “whipping boy” overwhelmed by trauma: “But broken bells don’t make a sound/No matter how hard you hit ’em.” Like the rest of  The Night Safari ’s most enthralling songs, it gives way to a well-earned, bruising form of catharsis.

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Review: Patrick Wolf's Latest - The Night Safari

Patrick Wolf, the 39-year-old English singer-songwriter, has been making waves in the music business for 20 years! His style is unique, and his eclectic history in music and fashion during his stay in the limelight has meant that he has gathered a wide range of followers from around the globe.

"The Night Safari" is a deep song with lyrics that take you on a real journey of discovery. The concept of being on a night safari is everything you think it might be, with dreamy phrases and hypothetical scenarios that keep you engaged with the lyrics throughout the song.

At over six minutes and with a distinctly unique feel to it, Patrick Wolf has delivered an operatic masterpiece with "The Night Safari". With little modern comparison, we are musically taken on quite a journey. With a floating vocal being the main staple of the song, the rest is divided up into a variety of sections with different vibes flowing across each one. We start with a very soft, stripped-back verse, but by the end, there are loops and a variety of instrumentation that make this song a fascinating listen that has been a wonderful experience.

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by Tina Benitez-Eves May 18, 2023, 3:32 pm

The Night Safari is a phrase Patrick Wolf conceptualized around nights spent “staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep and descending into a wilderness of dead ends and anxieties.” 

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The title of the British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist’s latest EP, The Night Safari, chronicles Wolf’s nearly decade-long creative lull and reemergence from addiction, hopelessness, and grief.

Written, performed and produced by Wolf, with additional production and engineering by Brendan Cox, The Night Safari is a collection of five songs. The tracks are backed by an ambitious arrangement of strings and other instruments — all played by Wolf — including violins, bowed psaltery, viola, and Celtic harp, along with an upright piano Moog synthesizer, and a Critter pocket piano, among other pieces.

The project was recorded in separate locations. From the coastal areas Isle of Thanet to Wandsworth in England to Lewisham and King’s Cross in London, and the Blue Mountains, the EP was mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios. The Night Safari is a fitting score moving the crossing through five distinct, and connected, stories.

Opening on the six-plus minute opus, “The Night Safari” is a song of “departure” and picks up where Wolf’s 2011 album Lupercalia left off. “Where the lovers were poised to elope on a bright future together,” he says, pinpointing the prior egress.

“This opening song says after all our seemingly invincible hope of love, that ‘all the love, is not enough,’” shares Wolf. “Although I write so that people can reflect and attach their own context to the lyrics, my intention with this song was to mark a departure from the coexisting togetherness of ‘Lupercalia.’ It says to the other half, in spirit: ‘The problems I am facing I will have to face alone. You or your love isn’t what will save me anymore. Now I need to find out what I have to rescue myself from and If I do and work through it, I may return safe at your side.’”

Continuing on, The Night Safari ventures into the no man’s land pulsing stomp of “ Nowhere Game ,” a song that came to Wolf first in melody several years earlier while he watched a storm brewing on a beach in Crimea. Over time, “Nowhere Game” evolved into a narrative around Wolf’s addiction, and a period of hopelessness. The song is told partly from the perspective of his sister and all those who tried to initially reach out to him.

“If you won’t accept our help, go ahead and continue to self-destruct,” says Wolf, elaborating on the meaning of the song and its un-celebratory refrain of Happy birthday / To the never get out of this now. “I hope you hit your rock bottom soon,” he continues. “Only then will you want to start to escape the nowhere of your life. Until then, happy birthday, another year in nowhere.”

Cutting through, The Night Safari is centered by a mid-Eastern, electric instrumental, “Acheron.” This halfway mark on The Night Safari is composed in multiple time signatures and with varied instruments before segueing into the seven-plus minute atmospheric dwelling of “Dodona,” a track chronicling more of Wolf’s 10-year journey toward sobriety.

“I booked a one-way to ticket landing on the Isle of Crete to catch a boat to the Epirus region of Greece,” recalls Wolf. “As my plane touched down, in enforced detoxification, my pilgrimage to the oracle of Dodona began, believing naively I would be able to rid myself of my affliction by this journey.”

He adds, “The journey to Dodona was the prelude to the chapter of life where I begin working to get better and also the realization that what lay ahead of me was a rock bottom, that there was to be much healing and recovery before I could ever think about returning to work or writing again.”

The Night Safari ends by reopening on the lightened “Enter the Day,” a letter to himself about renewal. Trembling at the helm / At standstill and overwhelm / Oh dear, nearly departed / Now life is a bridge / You cannot cross or burn, sings Wolf on the more lifted close.

Wolf has collaborated with Patti Smith , Marianne Faithfull, Tilda Swinton, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti , among other artists. For Wolf, The Night Safari is a reflection of the decade-plus passage of time since his fifth album Lupercalia in 2011 and follow-up Sundark and Riverlight — a reimagined compilation of his songs. It also serves as a precursor to Wolf’s forthcoming full-length album, set for release in early 2024.

Accompanying The Night Safari , Wolf recently released a monochromatic short film, The Bowline Knot , tying the visuals filmed around tracks “The Night Safari” and “Nowhere Game.”

Wolf spoke to American Songwriter about the years of work that led to The Night Safari , his journey to sobriety, and returning to writing, and a brand new life.

American Songwriter: You’ve presented these five distinct, and grand, tracks that formed The Night Safari. Describe the aftermath of releasing such an intense body of work.

Patrick Wolf: It’s definitely meant to be a dream sequence. It’s such a long period of work that stems across a long period of time. If I were a dentist, it would be like taking the plaque or the tartar off my teeth. It’s given me that feeling of being handed over. I’m feeling light about it all. It’s cleared an emotional residue for me. For a while, I was wading through that period of not being able to write, and it got a bit dark.

AS: These songs are ones that began taking shape years earlier. Were they transforming even more as you started to record everything?

PW: I left space for that. Sometimes, I am not writing the lyrics until I’ve gotten the final production, and it’s just a series of vowels and consonants up until then. When my mother passed in 2018, so much else was happening up to that point in my life that I was not going to be able to write about it right then. Then the years went by, and I was naturally digesting my grief and letting it speak. I was finding ways to describe it and write about it.

AS: The EP follows your journey to sobriety. When did you first begin turning your life around?

PW: My rock bottom was really 2015 to 2016, and after that, it was really a period of complete disconnection — from my work, from my responsibility as Patrick Wolf, touring, and being in the public eye. It was everything from bankruptcy to the beginning of my mother becoming ill. I was always trying to get work finished, and it was so forced because everything else was falling apart. The only thing that would come out of me creatively was pessimism and nihilism.

AS: Thinking back to your debut, Lycanthropy  (2003), and now with The Night Safari, do you feel like you’re the same songwriter?

PW: The first chapter of my career began with an EP and an album. Both of those were either rewriting or recording songs that I’ve written from the age of 13 up to the age of 20, so there was this decade of those EPS, of taking the past and rephrasing it for the present. That’s pretty much what’s happening here. I’m starting with an EP and catching up on that decade, so there are a lot of similarities here. 

AS: What can you share about the forthcoming album?

PW: Two years ago, I left London. I live on what they call the Viking Coast, and that experience of putting everything into a van and crossing over with all my instruments and everything. It was the beginning of a chapter of life that, in a way, The Night Safari serves as a prelude to.

I walked and learned the coastline and started going to local book shops and learning about the area’s folklore and mythology and really building up my language of the soil, and the cliffs, and the legends here. What I want to do is take the forgotten mythology and folklore of this town, and this landscape, which is incredibly beautiful, and set them as some of the markers of the stories I’m going to be telling.

AS: Would you say The Night Safari was healing for you? PW: It was. I don’t regret anything about the last 10 years. I always promised myself I wouldn’t return to work until I had a sense of gravity. I didn’t really know what that meant. Recently, I was planting strawberries, blackberries, and rhubarb. And that was the same day that my song got [on the charts] here, and I thought “Oh, that’s nice,” and I went and planted the strawberry plants.

This is the gratitude that I wanted, and the life that I wanted. The garden needs me. My cats need me. I have a purpose here. I have a life, and at the end of the day, it’s about finding that balance. In the old days, it would be three bottles of gin later and one week later of celebrating being on the list, but I am not a victim of the tide of success and failure in my career anymore. The joy is just making it, and the other joy is being able to experience it as it happens.

Photos: Kim Jakobsen-To / Courtesy of Erika Tooker PR

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Patrick Wolf unveils new track "The Night Safari"

Patrick Wolf shares the final track to be taken from his upcoming EP The Night Safari.

Patrick Wolf returns with “The Night Safari” – the title track from his highly anticipated forthcoming EP – which follows “Nowhere Game” (which hit the BBC 6-Music B List on release), and “Enter the Day”.

“'The Night Safari' is a phrase I gave those nights staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep and descending into a wilderness of dead ends and anxieties. The river in the song is a river that runs throughout the record," Wolf says.

The Night Safari will follow Wolf's 2012 album Sundark and Riverlight.

Patrick Wolf marked the 20th anniversary of his debut EP with " Enter the Day " in November last year.

the title track from “The Night Safari” is now all yours, streaming everywhere, a song of departure and a reply to the lovers of “Lupercalia” that, “all the love, is not enough”. Head to my instagram to read the full lyrics and credits. the EP will be released at 00:01 BST 14/04 pic.twitter.com/Ll58tl31JJ — Patrick Wolf (@_PATRICK_WOLF) April 11, 2023

“The Night Safari” EP will be released 14 April via Patrick Wolf's own label Apport.

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