Wolf Alice playing TRSNMT Festival 2018 (Photo: Live4ever)
Wolf Alice were presented with the 2018 Mercury Prize last night for their second studio album Visions Of A Life.
The band were triumphant with their second nomination in as many albums after 2015 debut My Love Is Cool also made the award’s shortlist, and won the £25,000 ahead of favourite Nadine Shah and established names such as Noel Gallagher, Florence & The Machine and Arctic Monkeys.
In naming Visions Of A Life one of our albums of last year, Live4ever observed Wolf Alice becoming ‘one of Britain’s most articulate, dexterous bands’:
“Whilst most artists treat politics like kryptonite to avoid alienating factions, Wolf Alice openly have a lot on their mind, with Rowsell at the vanguard of an ideological conflict she claims is, ‘A choice between good and evil’, a rare position for a young woman in an industry that likes its females docile or hyper sexualised.”
“Stark images of predation are tackled on Formidable Cool, but nothing that has gone before will prepare listeners for Yuk Foo, a scalding, Riot Grrrl blast of invective using as an accelerant the sort of pandemic anger anyone reaching full adulthood is likely to experience.”
There’ll be even more cause for celebration now when Wolf Alice bring their Visions Of A Life campaign to a close with December UK shows in London and Manchester.