You're all wrong.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 July 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
"your loves whore" is actually probably my favorite song on here, other than the last minute of "swallowtail"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 6 July 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
Listening to it now, and the thing that strikes me is how it feels like it's barely there, until it shifts gears. around 3:30. A lot of this is down to Roswell's vocal delivery.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 July 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
I guess the vocals are meant to sound intimately conversational?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 July 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
that giant peach song rules
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 July 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Peachy is riffs galore, and I like how it gets all Sonic Youth at around 3:05 (singles version, not the one I linked to above). I also can't help hearing echoes of the Psychedelic Furs' "India" at around 1:15, but that's probably just a personal problem. I hear as much of the 80s in it as the 90s.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 July 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
I would have preferred if they hadn't made Roswell's vocals on that song sound like the Go-Go's or whatever they are going for there, not that I hate that sound, but her natural vocal sound suits the song better.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
I'm listening to the album and it's pretty funny how this is almost structured to divide ILX, but honestly I think it's better for having the pop side and the more trad US underground rock style
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
I don't think of myself as very rock oriented at all, but I like Wolf Alice better in rocking mode. (Almost everything else I've liked this year has been dance pop, indie pop, hipster pop shit, etc.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 6 July 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
You could have a point in general though. If more of ILX pays any attention to this band, that might become clearer.
So wait there are THREE versions of "Bros?"
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
Oh I guess one of these is a remix of some sort. Not sure where this came from but I have it in my iTunes for some reason. Anyone know where this is from? It's pretty nice...
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
The album cover reminds me of one of those old occult/mediumistic photos.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
hadn't twigged the similarity btw this and Moaning Lisa's Smile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jsY-YdZ1s
― piscesx, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
this was better than I expected it to be; it's a weird record to be so big. No real poppy hooks; also it's not really a standout for the sort of music it is either, but it's pleasant
― akm, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
I listened to this a few days ago after seeing how popular they had become and skimming this thread and I didn't expect it to sound the way it did. It reminds me a lot of Belly at their most introspective.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
This is really growing on me.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 17 December 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
Fuck I wish I'd listened to this before I submitted my eoy ballot.
― how's life, Monday, 18 January 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link
#BRITBREAKWOLFALICE
― Mark G, Monday, 15 February 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.brits.co.uk/british-breakthrough-vote-guide
― Mark G, Monday, 15 February 2016 09:35 (eight years ago) link
i dig this song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vEE3Plk48
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
i seriously might go buy this album. i love riff rockin' with cool women singers. it must be the veruca salt fan in me.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:25 (eight years ago) link
best video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkghyKKQDss
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
love this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhC2qNLGd4
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
this is a great record scott! I hope you like it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 April 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
Some of the live versions of "Giant Peach" are better than the album version, over all. This one for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6-wbuON8Qk
(Although the climax is maybe best in the studio version.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 April 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
*overall*
(I am really tired.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 April 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
i ordered the CD online. i got the U.S. version which is slightly different than the U.K. version? Just like in the old days.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 April 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
This is my favorite rock album in awhile.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea. until the other day.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Really pissed off that I missed out on them last year. They're touring America now, but the only tour stop local to me is at a festival that I can't afford tickets to.
― how's life, Saturday, 9 April 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
They're opening for the 1975 who are apparently playing arenas. How the hell is that happening? Same thing with Alt J, who sold out Madison Square Garden.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 9 April 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
they have a sizeable and enthusiastic fanbase
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 April 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
i mean i too was surprised but they were selling out everything beneath arenas
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 April 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
i even love their cover of wicked game.
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
sounds so cool. they make it the guitar anthem it was meant to be.
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
this was my #1 in the eoy poll and i was surprised that it didn't get enough votes to make the list, seemed like a Big Record but ilm never bit
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
played all the videos last night on the PS4 for rufus and maria and now maria says SHE'S the number one wolf alice fan in the house and she's following them on twitter.
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
I don't really get the love for this, it felt stodgy and uninspired, except for the bits that weren't, which were brilliant. Shame there weren't that many of them. I fully expect them to make an amazing second or third album.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 April 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
I listened to the album again, inspired by this thread revival, and I still find it hard to get through it. But I still love individual songs and performances, especially some of the live ones. I am hopeful about their next album. I still tend to prefer their rocking material to their more pop-oriented stuff, though, so that could be a problem, if they really intend to head more toward pop.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 10 April 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
I suspect its their live shows that is really building their momentum at this point.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 10 April 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Really? I think the album's amazing. It feels like a living thing.
What would you consider their pop-oriented material other than Freazy? Everything other than that is rock, yes? And last I heard, they weren't even playing Freazy live because they just didn't know what to do with it.
― how's life, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Just checked that last statement and I guess they have played it live, but I thought I read an interview with them where they admitted to not being comfortable with how it fit into their sets.
― how's life, Monday, 11 April 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
"Bros" is poppy. Reminds me of The Sundays.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 April 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
this too. this video gave me chills the other night. so pretty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_QBC_pDkeU
― scott seward, Monday, 11 April 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
I like some of the non-rock songs on the album, but a lot of them feel like filler and are difficult for me to make it through. "Freazy" is one of the better ones. I also like "Turn to Dust" (though I'm always a little ambivalent about her mannered delivery there). "Bros" is okay. A little too much like the Sundays. I wish I had a copy of the earlier version Johnny Fever keeps mentioning, since I liked it better though I don't remember exactly what it sounded like at this point. I don't really like the low-energy vocals on most of "Your Loves Whore."
Songs that really lose me: "Lisbon" (and wait, this one is pretty rock), "Silk" (I just realized part of this reminds me of MIA) although I feel like there are various pieces here I could like if they were rearranged, "Swallowtail" (this is what happens when you give someone else a chance to sing), "Soapy Water," and "The Wonderwhy."
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
"lisbon" is prob my favorite song!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
also imo you can't be too much like the sundays
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
lol i think you listed all my favorite songs from this record. "soapy water" is so gorgeous
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
swallowtail is so gorgeous
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 April 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
safe from heartbreak is gorgeous
wonderful record
really want to see it live in a wild crowd
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
h8 2 austin but who gives a flying fuck abt pfork's response to this album. will check it out later
― imago, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
ellie really levelled up on this one imo...at various points on this record I get little hits of sundfor, fiona apple ("I'm no longer cashing tills, yeah") and liz fraser, but she's also get a presence all her own. the occasional male backing vox are a lovely touch as well
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
okay, this album rules
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 11 June 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
rt
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_QelwuC8I
this is the best song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
great video too
― ufo, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
Brad, do you hear "Love to Love You Baby" in the hi-hat and vocals?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
Damn, astute observation Alfred! It's one of my favorite songs from the album.
I'm still really loving this record and Wolf Alice is one of my favorite bands from the last decade. One thing I'll say is that the lyrics seem like they've taken a different turn? Ellie seems to be in a more straightforward writing phase, whereas when I listen back to stuff from My Love Is Cool, her lyrics seemed to have a more poetic bent. I don't think this is to the detriment of the songs in any way. The exception being Feeling Myself, which I love musically, but feels way too on-the-nose for me. I think she had mentioned in one of their recent interviews how after the Visions of a Life tour, she had trouble starting to write again.
idk, I love Blue Weekend a lot and am still listening to it regularly, but just wanted to see if anyone else felt that way about it.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
definitely more direct and diaristic than I recall from the other albums
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
Ok cool. Good to hear that from someone else. Again, I don't mean it as a slight. Visions of a Life had a song that it took me a long time to come around to (Beautifully Unconventional). I think Feeling Myself might be that for this album.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
ok, so, "safe from heartbreak"...holy shit
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
You want a cover of Steely Dan’s ‘Dirty Work’?? (59 minutes in)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000x0gm
― piscesx, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
No?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
nice cover imo
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
Bit of a catty review in Pitchfork. They always seem to have a problem with bands that are bigged up in the UK press.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 08:50 (two years ago) link
Really good this, last month's Worthy Farm mini-gig
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09l0c6y/glastonbury-wolf-alice-2021
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWAx67iGyc
it isn't LOUD ENOUGH
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
A whole dvd of these videos will surely go on to a ‘Deluxe’ edition of Blue Weekend just in time for Christmas.
― piscesx, Thursday, 1 July 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
listened to this on a whim after finding everything else they've done very boring and I kind of like this one. She really sounds like Elizabeth Fraser on a few tracks.
― akm, Thursday, 1 July 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
I've never heard anything to convince me this band isn't deathly dull.
― chap, Friday, 2 July 2021 00:35 (two years ago) link
I spoke to your mom about it though
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 July 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
First gig back tonight, in the coastal town of Bournemouth, their first proper gig since the end of 2018. Seems they did most of the new album, and at some point a cover of I'm Waiting For The Man
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/wolf-alice/2021/o2-academy-bournemouth-bournemouth-england-138fcd59.html
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E67pynHX0Aca_ql?format=jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g7FnQGF-pE
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 26 September 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
that is very well done
― akm, Sunday, 26 September 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e2aPTQIGgY
demo of a track that didn't make the album, quite nice
― ufo, Saturday, 27 November 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
That's a pretty one! I hadn't thought about it since it came out, but worth coming back to.
In other news, this version of Delicious Things with an orchestra at Abbey Road came out yesterday and it sounds amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2uPKoPsYI
― peace, man, Sunday, 28 November 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
It looks like they're coming back to America in March. Check your local listings.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
Today we release a new lullaby version of The Last Man On Earth featuring @LCVchoir.It’s the first song from a collection called Blue Lullaby which will be released as an EP on June 24th. Listen now: https://t.co/8YY8xe0TALPre-save the EP: https://t.co/UPJCS4JxjI pic.twitter.com/a3yrq542Qu— Wolf Alice (@wolfalicemusic) May 5, 2022
???
― ufo, Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah, just listened to the new version of Last Man on Earth. For the record, I am not tiring of all the new versions of Last Man on Earth. The changes in the arrangement are always subtle, but I still get into it.
It sounds like the rest of the EP will also be stripped-back versions of album cuts.
No word yet on a physical release, so I'm guessing this will just be a digital thing.
― peace, man, Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link
Blue Lullaby EP out today (whilst band frantically tries to find a plane to Glastonbury)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwuXP1yQ2iY
― groovypanda, Friday, 24 June 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link
Killed it on the Pyramid stage; that was about as good as it could possibly have been. Felt like an audition to headline. I hope they don’t disappear too long to write/record album 4.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 June 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
The Lullaby "Lipstick on the Glass" is GORGEOUS. Wow.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 24 June 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Feels like it's jumped up a notch this summer; all the will-they-won't-they stuff pre-Glastonbury on Friday, supporting Harry Styles on *seventeen* arena dates, etc etc.
New stage set up looks fabulous
i love wolf alice pic.twitter.com/zGTuOdhQc1— ares SAW HARRY (@2kittz) June 29, 2022
― piscesx, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
Ellie's doing vocals on a new song by Thy Slaughter, which is an A.G. Cook thing. My first impression is that it's not that distinct, as far as A.G. Cook things go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jed1xlM5qI
― peace, man, Thursday, 16 November 2023 13:22 (seven months ago) link
Creature Songs EP is being re-released on 10"
https://store.wolfalice.co.uk/products/creature-songs-ep-10th-anniversary-vinyl
― peace, man, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 18:42 (two weeks ago) link