Avant-garde singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf treated lucky New York fans to a special acoustic show Wednesday night, during which he debuted 10 songs off his June release, The Bachelor. Read SPIN's full review here

Avant-garde singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf treated lucky New York fans to a special acoustic show Wednesday night, during which he debuted 10 songs off his June release, The Bachelor. Read SPIN's full review here

The towering 6'4" Brit took the stage in black lederhosen, knee-high argyle socks, shiny leather shoes, and an assortment of dangly jewelry.

Wolf, who began playing music at age 11, switched from piano to guitar, ukulele, dulcimer, and violin.

Chatty and ebullient, Wolf explained many of the new songs' meanings. "This one's about returning home to my family after touring and going for a walk with my parents in Sussex," he said of "Blackdown."

Another song's influence was much more disarming. Wolf explained that one unnamed track was about a woman in Medieval England who killed herself after being abandoned by a lover. "Those suicides used to be called 'deaths from a broken heart,'" he said.

Midway through the 90-minute set, Wolf stopped to introduce Victoria, who provided piano and violin accompaniment.

As the seated crowd hollered requests and instructions to "take your shirt off," Wolf closed the show with spot-on performances oftwo new songs, "Vulture" and "The Sun Is Often Out."