British Quartet Wolf Alice on the Creation of Their Masterful New Album, 'Blue Weekend'
has been one of those “big in England” bands who are massive in their home country, leading awards shows and winning best album prizes, while they remain relatively under the radar in the U.S.” — out today on Dirty Hit-RCA — may take them out of that category. With flashes of Blur, labelmates the 1975, Radiohead and even Abba, it’s one of the most fully realized long-players of the year.
True to form, Wolf Alice blitz through a number of genres on “Blue Weekend.” Its first single, “Last Man on the Earth,” is an introspection on human arrogance over a piano track that swells into a choir-infused rock ballad. In line with “VOAL’s” “Yuk Foo” and “MLIC’s” “You’re a Germ,” frontwoman Ellie Rowsell sends a full throttle kiss of with “Smile.
“It just takes you a minute to gel, especially when you’re working on something which is an emotion-based kind of project like a record,” Amey explains. “We learned things off Marcus, definitely. I think it also highlighted how we like to work and put faith back in our strengths in the studio, as well. We do like making songs with loads of shit in it. That is fun for us to put loads of different things and delicious things. More is more.
In “Blue Weekend,” Roswell finds particular strength in vulnerability, though the execution manifests differently all over the album as exemplified by the three singles. Late album track “Feeling Myself” has a sultry twist and for Amey, it’s “one of my favorite things we’ve done sonically and emotionally.” It made its way off the chopping block after being tested over the lap dance scene in Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof.
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