Wolf Alice by Jordan Hemingway
Wolf Alice won the Mercury Prize in 2018 with Visions Of A Life.
Wolf Alice have dispensed with the teasing and confirmed their third studio album Blue Weekend for release on June 11th.
Produced by Markus Dravs out of demos first recorded in a converted church, the LP’s first single is The Last Man On Earth – ‘about the arrogance of humans’ according to Ellie Rowsell.
“I’d just read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and I had written the line, ‘Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god’ in my notes,” she explains.
“But then I thought: ‘Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn’t a dancing lesson from god, it’s just a travel suggestion. Why does everything need to mean something more?’.”
Visions Of A Life was on Live4ever’s Best Albums list in 2017, our review noting that it was, ‘becoming worryingly traditional to mock their generation as emotionally hollowed out, virtue signaling caricatures whose sincerity only extends to a fashionable pick and mix of identity politics’.
“For Wolf Alice, Visions Of A Life is ample proof that they have no case to answer there. Now one of Britain’s most articulate, dexterous bands, ferocious and tender, their pack is coming for us.”
Blue Weekend tracklist:
The Beach
Delicious Things
Lipstick on The Glass
Smile
Safe from Heartbreak (if you never fall in love)
How Can I Make It OK?
Play the Greatest Hits
Feeling Myself
The Last Man on Earth
No Hard Feelings
The Beach II
