There are bands, and then there’s
Wolf Alice.
Sorry if you find that a touch dismissive of your other faves, but it’s not intended that way. You get one band in every generation that has something sort of magical about them. If there’s any doubt, that’s the special sparkle the London four-piece have - stardust that takes them beyond mere notes and sounds, and into a magical kingdom of their own.
Later today (12th June), they’re set to drop ‘
Yuk Foo’ - the first track from their second album. Spoiler alert, but we’re absolutely buzzing already. Come 7pm, we’re likely to pop. And here’s why.
Debut albums don’t come better than ‘My Love Is Cool’. Fact. While some are wall to wall bangers, it takes something beyond an ear for a tune to craft something that arrives so fully formed it’s already way beyond the sum of its parts.
That’s the first piece of the Wolf Alice puzzle. Only the most iconic of bands deliver debuts that feel like they’re already steeped in their own lexicon. From the opening, sweeping vistas of ‘
Turn To Dust’, into the peerless ‘
Bros’ - doubtless one of the very best songs of the last decade - there’s the tingle of something from the ether about ‘My Love Is Cool’. A land between the waking world and a fantasy kingdom, there’s the feeling that, just beyond what the eye can see, something strange and bewitching is taking hold.
