Wolf Alice

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...

The album cover reminds me of one of those old occult/mediumistic photos.

hadn't twigged the similarity btw this and Moaning Lisa's Smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jsY-YdZ1s

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

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.

This is really growing on me.

Fuck I wish I'd listened to this before I submitted my eoy ballot.

#BRITBREAKWOLFALICE

http://www.brits.co.uk/british-breakthrough-vote-guide

i dig this song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vEE3Plk48

i seriously might go buy this album. i love riff rockin' with cool women singers. it must be the veruca salt fan in me.

best video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkghyKKQDss

love this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhC2qNLGd4

this is a great record scott! I hope you like it

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.)

*overall*

(I am really tired.)

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.

This is my favorite rock album in awhile.

i had no idea. until the other day.

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.

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.

they have a sizeable and enthusiastic fanbase

i mean i too was surprised but they were selling out everything beneath arenas

i even love their cover of wicked game.

sounds so cool. they make it the guitar anthem it was meant to be.

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

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.

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.

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.

I suspect its their live shows that is really building their momentum at this point.

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.

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.

"Bros" is poppy. Reminds me of The Sundays.

this too. this video gave me chills the other night. so pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_QBC_pDkeU

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."

"lisbon" is prob my favorite song!

also imo you can't be too much like the sundays

lol i think you listed all my favorite songs from this record. "soapy water" is so gorgeous

swallowtail is so gorgeous

soapy water is a standout to me too

gone fucking nuts on the vinyl rarities front too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WOLF-ALICE-BLUSH-2013-UK-10-EP-CHESS-CLUB-CC060-NO-DOWNLOAD-CARD-/272175311871?hash=item3f5ee9abff:g:H3EAAOSwmmxW2XPV

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wolf-Alice-Vinyl-/182086468873?hash=item2a65330509:g:v4YAAOSwgApXBXmY

They just posted that they're going to be on the new Ghostbusters soundtrack. No idea if it's going to be an older song or something new though.

giant peach into blush. so good. starts at 30:00. i'm like a deadhead for wolf alice. always looking for the best giant peach. this one rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap61CXBy-d8

I was just listening to part of that Thursday night. Some good stuff, but the songs I found draggy on the album I still find draggy. Didn't get as far as Giant Peach, so I might return to it.

Are you talking about a live album or something?

No, I meant the studio album.

Ha I was using the zing app which didn't show this video. Now I see it.

This band is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eoO4JGr_FM

Is On The Road worth watching?

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1467-24-hour-party-people-director-michael-winterbottom-tucked-a-love-story-inside-a-tour-doc/

Possible new album news?

COMING SOON
SIGN UP BELOW
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— wolf alice (@wolfalicemusic) May 4, 2017

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.

ok, so, "safe from heartbreak"...holy shit

You want a cover of Steely Dan’s ‘Dirty Work’??
(59 minutes in)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000x0gm

No?

nice cover imo

Bit of a catty review in Pitchfork. They always seem to have a problem with bands that are bigged up in the UK press.

Really good this, last month's Worthy Farm mini-gig

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09l0c6y/glastonbury-wolf-alice-2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWAx67iGyc

it isn't LOUD ENOUGH

A whole dvd of these videos will surely go on to a ‘Deluxe’ edition of Blue Weekend just in time for Christmas.

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.

I've never heard anything to convince me this band isn't deathly dull.

I spoke to your mom about it though

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g7FnQGF-pE

that is very well done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e2aPTQIGgY

demo of a track that didn't make the album, quite nice

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

It looks like they're coming back to America in March. Check your local listings.

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/8YY8xe0TAL
Pre-save the EP: https://t.co/UPJCS4JxjI pic.twitter.com/a3yrq542Qu

— Wolf Alice (@wolfalicemusic) May 5, 2022

???

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.

Blue Lullaby EP out today (whilst band frantically tries to find a plane to Glastonbury)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwuXP1yQ2iY

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.

The Lullaby "Lipstick on the Glass" is GORGEOUS. Wow.

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

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