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Untie (2001 Demo)

by Patrick Wolf

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this was the second song to be released on patreon, may 2002

"Here is a recording of a song that went missing it feels long before I begun production of the debut E.P, when i was 17 working my days at camden market repairing clothes in the daytime and in the evening back to my little rented room on Oseney Crescent in Kentish town, where i had laid down a cupboard so i could set up my Atari, Sampler and Digital 4 track on to record my songs, just before laptops were a commodity or computers with audio interfaces at all affordable. I was still finding my voice there at the end of puberty, and my production aesthetic was an expression of abrasion without any concern of frequencies that might be irritating, or much thought of the listener. So there is your warning! It was around this time I would form the band Maison Crimineaux, very much based on this sound you hear on Untie, with more shouting and screaming, the concerts of which would take me to Paris and lead to my first label deal for my solo work. The last lyrics of the song are lifted from the text of a composition I had been studying at junior music academy, by Karlheinz Stockhausen, a great hero of mine at the time"

artwork : self portrait with manikin 2002

lyrics

let go of the darkness that dances on your plan
let go of the demon that pulls you under sand
what a terrible thing to be singing
right behind you boy
chaos marching
run, run, you can never stop until you make it home
run, run, distortion devours those who roam
right ahead of you a creature black
it will smell your god
just don't turn back
untie their knots
from round your heart
from round this night
my mission now to save
my last piece of strength
lost in a classroom trench
scissors and courage
and family weeping
to swing the law
education is nothing
without a world war
untie their knots
from round your heart
from round the night

"in my one man torpedo bow / i know nothing else anymore
one eye high up front i steer / suicide mission"

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released November 19, 2023
Written + Produced by Patrick Wolf
Atari St, Sampler, Programming and Vocals by Patrick Wolf

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