Multi-artist Patrick Wolf shares “Penzance.” The track is taken from The Circling Sky a collection of B-sides and Rarities spanning 21 years, from Wolf’s beginnings as a musician when he was a teenager. Originally announced as a vinyl only release, it will now also be available on digital platforms December 21st.

Whilst in the studio working on his seventh studio album, Wolf was inspired to compile The Circling Sky looking back across a stellar career to date, and features some of his most beloved tracks not featured on an LP project. It is carefully sequenced into an album by Wolf himself and was meticulously mastered for the first time at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton. Initially to be released on very special limited edition vinyl, listeners will be encouraged to immerse themselves in the sequence it was created.

Wolf delves into the story of ‘Penzance’;

“This song began being written in the eye of a rapidly gathering love affair when I was 18 while I was finishing writing my debut “Lycanthropy” – within a few days of meeting each other while I had just been fired from my job repairing leather coats in Camden Market, he encouraged me to elope and skip an interview for a job to be a bead salesman and leave London to adventure and dissolve into a stretch expanse of West Cornwall where he and his family were from. He booked us a cabin on the night train to Penzance via Teignmouth and in the coming days I would be introduced to the world of my second album, Godrevy Point, The Towans, Lands End and of course the title of this song. By the time I had finished “Wind in the Wires” five years later in 2004, this song ultimately felt like it disassembled something of the concise claustrophobic narrative I had sequenced for the album, so despite being such a key song to the project, I slipped it perhaps also a little self conscious of its intimacy onto the relative obscurity of a b-side, yet to this day I know it has lived on to be one of my audiences most beloved songs of mine. This mastering of it finally brings its intricate and delicate nocturnal production to life I think too.”

The Circling Sky features two previously un-digitized tracks, ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and ‘Empress’, only previously available on 2002’s debut EP limited vinyl. ‘Short Story’ was a B-side intended for the Lycanthropy album singles, but no singles from the album were released. The album opens with ‘Night Train’, a B-side intended for Wind in the Wires, but was requested by CocoRosie to appear on a very limited compilation album alongside Vashti Bunyan and Devandra Barnhart that helped define a new collective and genre of folk music in the mid 2000s.

Order The Circling Sky by Patrick Wolf HERE