Wolf Alice: Glitter Bomb

Best of 2015

Rock? Indie? When you've had the year Wolf Alice have, genre boundaries don't matter.

Words: Ali Shutler.

"Sometimes I feel like we’re having so many good things happen to us, that there’s some really shit karma on the way,” starts Theo Ellis. “We were just playing in America and everything was so great. It was such a good time, surely we’ve got something bad on the way.” Since the release of ‘Fluffy’ back at the start of 2013, Wolf Alice haven’t put a foot wrong. Slowly but surely Joff Oddie, Joel Amey, Ellie Rowsell and Theo have crafted identity and voice. It’s what makes makes ‘My Love Is Cool’, their Mercury Prize nominated debut album, glitter so. Released in June of this year, it’s the gooey centre at the heart of Wolf Alice’s miraculous year. From their triumphant pre-album show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire through Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading, Leeds until the entirety of their two month, transatlantic headline tour with Drenge, it’s been a year of highlights. While the world at large has only just started taking the scrappy four-piece seriously, they’ve meant business for ages now. “It felt very real to us for quite a while before. We put out those two EPs and we toured in support of them. It had already become everything we’re doing. Working towards the album had consumed all of our time for about a year before release. It’s definitely set us off in a new direction though.” “Yeah, everything feels a bit up in the air before you release an album. It sort of cements you as a band,” adds Ellie.