Patrick Dyer Wolf was born and raised in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, in the long shadow of the Manhattan skyline. Directionless and confused at age 7, he received a mix tape from his dad with some Randy Newman and a bunch of James Taylor, and spent the following years taking heavy doses of Mark Knopfler, The Beatles, Christmas With The Beach Boys, some occasional Earth, Wind and Fire, and, ultimately, an unhealthy amount of nineties rock.

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