The Clearing Wolf Alice

• 1 Thorns 03:14
• 2 Bloom Baby Bloom 03:47
• 3 Just Two Girls 03:49
• 4 Leaning Against The Wall 04:11
• 5 Passenger Seat 02:52
• 6 Play It Out 04:11
• 7 Bread Butter Tea Sugar 03:28
• 8 Safe in the World 03:31
• 9 Midnight Song 02:50
• 10 White Horses 04:29
• 11 The Sofa 04:26
• Total Runtime 40:48

Info for The Clearing

Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding a mirror up to their own emerging generation. Today, Wolf Alice’s fourth album The Clearing finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’, both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, 2018’s follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Blue Weekend and its resultant UK number 1 and Brit Award for Best Group. In the process, lead singer Ellie Rowsell has grown into a storytelling icon, weaving cautionary tales of how your twenties will hurt you, but in valuable ways. Wolf Alice have also toured the world multiple times headlining sold out tours, gracing numerous festival stages and supporting an array of key artists including pop icon Harry Styles. This summer so far sees them performing at Radio 1’s Big Weekend followed by a top spot at Glastonbury.

Both playful and serious, ironic and straight-talking,The Clearing is a progressive shift from a band whose exploration of love, loss and human connection has already articulated the coming-of-age experience for a whole generation. It’s a classic pop/rock album that nods to the ‘70s while remaining rooted firmly in the present. If Fleetwood Mac wrote an album today in North London, you’d get somewhere close to this run of effortlessly grand tracks, each as distinct as the last. Sonically, there is no waste, no fuss, with more authoritative melodies than the band has ever crafted before. This is a new beginning, and each of the band feels it as keenly as listeners will.

Front and centre of The Clearing is Rowsell’s ever-evolving poetic storytelling alongside an innate desire for Ellie, Joff, Theo and Joel to have fun, secure in their ambition and ability at this unique moment in time. The Clearing encapsulates that freeing feeling of finding a moment of peace and clarity, having survived the freewheeling frivolity of your 20s, emerging into your future and is a portrait of Wolf Alice standing on the precipice of a new decade in both life and art.

Wolf Alice

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Wolf Alice
are an English alternative rock band from London, England. Formed in 2010 as an acoustic duo comprising of singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie, Wolf Alice have also featured bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey since 2012.

In February 2015, the band released the lead single ‘Giant Peach’ from their gold-selling debut album My Love Is Cool, which was released in June 2015. It includes their 2014 single ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’, which peaked at number nine on US Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart in August 2015, and was nominated for the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.

The band released their second gold-selling studio album Visions of a Life in September 2017, then their third gold-selling album Blue Weekend in June 2021. Their third album features singles ‘The Last Man On Earth’ and ‘Smile’, which reached number one in the UK Charts and was also nominated for the Mercury Prize. In fact, the band are one of only a small handful of artists to be nominated for the Mercury Prize for every single album they’ve released.

In 2022, Wolf Alice won the Brit Award for British Group.

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