Wolf Alice have introduced a pair of intimate exhibits to have fun the discharge of their upcoming album ’The Clearing’.
The North London band introduced their fourth studio album in Could and it will likely be launched on August 22 by way of Sony (pre-order/pre-save right here). It follows on from their debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’, Mercury Prize-winning sophomore launch ‘Visions Of A Life’ and 2022’s cinematic ‘Blue Weekend’.
They’ve to date shared the singles ‘Bloom Child Bloom’, ‘The Couch’ and ‘White Horses’.
Now, the band have introduced particulars of two small exhibits that can observe the document’s launch – they may play at Circuit in Kingston on August 31 after which Camp and Furnace in Liverpool on September 1. Tickets for each exhibits go on sale at 11am on Tuesday (August 12) and it is possible for you to to get yours right here.
In addition to these dates, Wolf Alice might be taking part in a significant headline tour of the UK and Eire later within the 12 months – see the total listing of dates right here and purchase your tickets right here.
In June, the band spoke to NME at Glastonbury about how the response to their third album formed their method to ‘The Clearing’.
“I believe very a lot. I believe we have been buoyed by the songier songs being issues that folks actually related to and we spent much more time engaged on these constituency, songy tune components of the songs,” Joff Oddie stated. “It’s the toughest factor on the earth to jot down a extremely concise tune in a – I don’t wanna say pop construction, however you realize what I imply. It’s fairly straightforward to throw a five-minute jam collectively, however that’s so troublesome, so it’s an excellent problem and that’s extra so the place we have been targeted with this album.”
NME reviewed ‘Bloom Child Bloom’, awarding it 5 stars and writing: “After three albums of constructing and increasing their world, and experiencing the ups and downs of the music trade, it feels just like the band are able to stake their declare as one in every of their era’s most necessary acts. Now, Wolf Alice are undoubtedly in full bloom.”
NME additionally gave Wolf Alice’s Glastonbury 2025 efficiency 5 stars, writing: “The vitality they pour into at the moment’s set looks like that of a band who ought to be topping the Pyramid Stage subsequent time they play Worthy Farm.”
“Because the set ends with ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’ – a powerful contender for the most effective, most dizzyingly correct love songs ever written – that feeling solely intensifies. That tune finds Rowsell writing herself a romantic Hollywood ending; Wolf Alice’s world-beating set does the identical for Glastonbury 2025.”
