Wolf Alice announce fourth album ‘The Clearing’ and share powerful single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’
The fourth record from the North London favourites will arrive in August.
By Nick Reilly
Wolf Alice have announced details of their anticipated fourth album The Clearing, as well as sharing the massive first single from the record, ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’.
The group’s next record arrives on August 29 and marks their first on Sony Music. Written in Seven Sisters, London and recorded in Los Angeles, it sees them team up with Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin, known for his work with titans such as Adele and Foo Fighters.
‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ marks the first taste of the record and begins with a funky jazz-flecked piano line, before it slowly grows into the thunderous sound that fans will instantly recognise.
“I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,” vocalist Ellie Rowsell said. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”
The video for ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ is a collaboration with noted alt-pop director Colin Solal Cardo, famous for collaborations with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens and Phoenix.
As for the rest of the record, an official release notes that it “encapsulates that freeing feeling of finding a moment of peace and clarity, having survived the freewheeling frivolity of your 20s, emerging into your future and is a portrait of Wolf Alice standing on the precipice of a new decade in both life and art”.
The group’s last record came in 2021’s Blue Weekend. They will play a string of intimate shows in Ireland this month, before major appearances at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend and Glastonbury next month.