Indie Rock band Wolf Alice return with an entrancing single and announce the release of their third album ‘Blue Weekend’
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It has been four years since Wolf Alice released their second album ‘Visions of a Life’ and it’s no exaggeration to say their loyal fans have been waiting for news ever since. After revelling in a week of teasers on social media, the dreamy four-piece have dropped their single ‘The Last Man on Earth’ and announced the upcoming release of their third album ‘Blue Weekend’.
Classic to their previous catalogue of work ‘The Last Man on Earth’ is a moving journey, transporting its listeners through an atmospheric musical landscape. Beginning intimately with the vocals of Ellie Rowsell accompanied by an enchanting piano instrumental, fans are sitting face to face with the voice of Wolf Alice once again, comfortably awaiting their next tale. Gradually the story builds into an orchestral holy soundscape. Expanding drum beats and overlapped vocals sit us in the place this band has often taken us to before; the cliff edge of a crescendo, ending in a state of euphoria. This evening was no exception. A breakdown with a 60s-like groove brings an additional dimension to this comeback track, which then transforms into an authentic illusive Wolf Alice outro. It is grand, fulfilling and freeing and can only be compared to an elating run along a coastline, or a conscious realisation of bliss which is often masked in day-to-day life.
Lyrically, the record is observational and addresses the arrogance and perhaps loneliness of humankind: ‘Every book you take / And dust off from the shelf / Has lines between lines between lines / That you read about yourself / But does a light shine on you?
It speaks honestly of our need to relate to Art and absorb it in relation to our own emotions, paths and imagined storylines. The piece addresses our desperateness to feel heard, seen or our need to impulsively apply our own imaginations to Art.
Cleverly, Rowsell is direct in teaching us of our own collective desires and impulses, but also sits us in the chair of fulfilling those exact things. Instantly we are creating the scenes and conjuring emotional spells to cast on the lyrics, ignorantly bypassing the very meaning of the song.
This track is just another addition to the consistent boundary-pushing catalogue of work from these Mercury-prize winners. The band are proof that producing experimental music is still possible, whilst still remaining authentic and familiar to themselves and their listeners. It is a smart truthful commentary, combined with the warm liberating instrumentals fans have been waiting for four years, fulfilling our previously mentioned need to feel movingly connected to this piece of incredible Art.
The complete LP ‘Blue Weekend’ is set to release on the 11th of June via Dirty Hit/RCA Records. Catch the video for ‘The Last Man on Earth’ here, directed by Jordan Hemingway.
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