Last year Patrick Wolf announced he was giving us something to get excited about in 2023 – he would be returning to us with new music in the shape of The Night Safari EP. This week he dropped the next single, and the accompanying video, for the gorgeous ‘Nowhere Game‘.

Patrick has always been an artist that allows us to luxuriate in his orchestral/classical elements and then contrast that with his punk sensibility. With beautiful strings and his oaring vocal, the song has more progressive, experimental ideas bubbling under through the production.

“On the way home from a concert on a stage facing the Black Sea in Crimea I recorded a melody into my laptop and started programming on the plane home, trying to make a portrait of the storm rolling I had watched sitting backstage on the beach with an armed security guard. Many years later as I was finishing The Night Safari E.P I discovered that unfinished project and then the new string section and lyrics of a period of life I named “nowhere game”, a few years where I stopped singing all together apart from, I realised, to record “happy birthday” down the phone to my friends and family. Ultimately the song to me is a slow realisation of being trapped in any manifestation of a vicious cycle and a long way yet from knowing how to ask for help. The viola and violin parts on Nowhere Game and across the e.p are played by myself for the first time since my first two albums, proof to me that I had broken one of my own vicious cycles in the end and returned to my craft”

The Night Safari EP is out 14th April