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Cult singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf has released a statement to mark the completion of his much-anticipated third album, entitled The Magic Position, to be released later this year on Loog:
"Yesterday night around seven pm... a very exciting thing happened... I completed my third album, The Magic Position!
It's been quite an exhausting process to tell the truth... my ambition was to create a forty-minute wonderland that can lift the listener out of all their problems and correct their sadness like a magic spell...
Well, of course you will all be the judge of whether my little mission has been completed but all I can say is after mastering yesterday (the third mastering session that has taken place for this album!) I walked away with a bigger smile and dance in my heart than I have done with the last two albums, My perfectionist producer streak has almost been the death of me with this album but still on completion... I ran screaming down the streets of Shepherds Bush straight into the nearest bar with my best friend and proceeded to drink snakebite and dance on the sofas, I think I ended up in a death metal bar in Soho but I can't remember how I got home. But I am.
Life is fantastic today, The sun shines in on south London, the birds are singing and I am too. I hope you all have a bit of patience for waiting to hear and hopefully enjoy the monster I just made, I know it will be a good few months before release. But one thing finishes and another starts...
Yes, now comes that part of this rollercoaster that deals with my public behaviour. The shows... the videos... the singles... the questions and answers... It's going to be a long year or so ahead but I am preparing.
I now leave you only with love, I must sleep again I am tired, emotional and full of terrorism... and it feels fantastic...
Now now, brown cow, let me put you in the boom boom... magic position!"
Patrick is also doing a rare DJ set this Sunday 16th July at 9pm, at MacSorley's (42 Jamaica Street), Glasgow.
