Patrick Wolf Talks New Album, Tilda Swinton, Satanism

"I'm gonna run the risk of being free," sang British glam-goth punk Patrick Wolf on his 2005 track "The Libertine". The line and song could easily double as a personal manifesto. Wolf changes genres (preternaturally confident combinations of chamber-pop, dance-pop, electro, folk, classical, and macabre machine music) about as often as he changes hair colors (stark black, stark blond, stark red). He talks with the lofty gusto of a true artiste; he would probably come across as something of an ass...

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