![]() Read the full cover feature in July’s issue of DIY and online from Wednesday 24th June at 12pm GMT. It’s great that people are still holding out for it. That’s more important than rushing something. But everyone’s like ‘Oh, it’s the hot new band - have you got twelve more of these?’ We wanted to take some time and make sure we were proud of what we ended up putting out. You don’t have any pre-conceived idea of an album at that stage. You put out a song or a single, just because you want people to hear it. “It’s such a fickle day and age for music,” says Joel Amey, with Theo Ellis in agreement. I don’t think there are any skippers on this record.” ![]() “You think you’ve got loads of songs but then you realise some of them are skippers. “We weren’t ready, really,” admits Ellie Rowsell. Two EPs (‘Blush’ and ‘Creature Songs’) sport enough songs to make up a record, but the demand’s been there for something bigger. Having a good cry at the end is probably doing it a disservice.įor those who’ve been following their every move from the start, Wolf Alice’s debut has been a long time coming. Somehow, it goes beyond the expectations they laid out from the beginning. It’ll provoke and inspire anyone listening in, up there with ‘Silent Alarm’ and ‘Antidotes’ in the game-changing debut stakes. It’s easy to overdo the hyperbole when a new group points the way forward with such assurance, but this really does strike as a classic record. Previously discarded off-cuts like ‘Lisbon’ evolve into juggernauts. Oldies like ‘Bros’ and ‘Fluffy’ are reupholstered and transformed into bigger beasts. Each song is steeped in nuances together they kick and scream with the same feverish excitement. Their first work affirms this premonition and goes several steps further. Big without being brash, anthemic without ticking boxes and sitting neatly outside of standard genre constraints, they were anything but ‘the usual bunch’. Their songs were introverted things, coated in darkness, but they also had the potential to convert thousands. Even when they were patched together and taking on the road, Wolf Alice seemed different. ‘My Love Is Cool’ isn’t the kind of debut that lends itself to indifference. They’re the group this generation’s been holding out for, and this month’s cover feature tracks their journey from haphazard beginnings to the real deal. Out next Wednesday (24th June), free via UK stockists, online and on Apple Newsstand, the July issue finds a band going way beyond even the most far-fetched of expectations. Their latest single, the blush-worthy (in subject and cover art) Blush, is just as beautiful, if not more soit takes a little of the lightness from Bros and adds in some melodrama, a slightly more serious edge, but all while maintaining a dreampop shine so bright and strong that it permeates all the way from the guitars to the. ![]() They’ve delivered the year’s defining debut, conquered US telly and Brixton Academy is in their sights - now Wolf Alice are on the cover of DIY’s July 2015 issue.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |