Celestial London singer Patrick Wolf have spoken out about his upcoming album ‘Battle’ funded by a unique source – his fans.
Wolf turned to his fans when left without a label. Using the website Bandstocks the musician’s admirers were able to buy ‘shares’ in the album in exchange for a special edition copy with their name in the credits.
The unusual scheme has worked with Wolf delivering yet another utterly distinctive album.
Asked by US magazine Pitchfork why he chose this route, Wolf made it clear that “I ended up taking the most liberal way of releasing the record, which is through Bandstocks. My lawyer told me about it. It’s like side-stepping piracy in a way, because people help to finish the album financially, and they get a real copy of it rather than downloading half of it off Limewire. It just seems like an ingenious way of making sure the album format stays alive.”
Wolf has managed to rope in award winning actress Tilda Swinton for the forthcoming album. “On one of the songs, she plays the part of my mum, who’s found me at the end of a self-destructive period of my life. She’s trying to tell me that I look like death, absolutely sick and disgusting, and to snap out of it.”
Patrick Wolf releases new album ‘Battle’ later this year.
