Wolf Alice have launched the most recent teaser of their new album ‘The Clearing’ – hearken to ‘White Horses’ beneath.
The North London band introduced their fourth studio album in Might and it will likely be launched on August 22 through 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 already shared the singles ‘Bloom Child Bloom’ and ‘The Couch’, and now they’re again with ‘White Horses’.
That includes drummer Joel Amey sharing fast hearth lead vocals with Ellie Rowsell, it’s based mostly round a hypnotic acoustic guitar riff that propels the psych-flavoured monitor like a driving synth line. Watch the video right here:
Amey has mentioned: “I used to be impressed by what songs we had already that have been turning into ‘The Clearing’; the sonic shapes we have been creating, the massive acoustics, the harmonies, however I needed to underpin it with a driving krautrock beat.”
Talking in regards to the inspiration for the music, he added: “I used to be on this large journey with my finest mates, by no means feeling the necessity to name one place house, residing out a suitcase, all of the stuff that comes with being in a band. I felt that the solutions to ‘who I’m and the place do I come from?’ didn’t matter a lot; I’d chosen my household and so they have been the individuals round me. ‘White Horses’ was me making an attempt to place all that right into a tune, and Ellie, Joff and Theo helped me all alongside the best way.”
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 technology’s most essential acts. Now, Wolf Alice are undoubtedly in full bloom.”
In assist of their new document, Wolf Alice are set to hit the street on a headline tour of the UK and Eire. See the complete record 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 individuals actually linked to and we spent much more time engaged on these constituency, songy music components of the songs,” Joff Oddie mentioned. “It’s the toughest factor on the planet to write down a extremely concise music in a – I don’t wanna say pop construction, however you recognize what I imply. It’s fairly straightforward to throw a five-minute jam collectively, however that’s so tough, so it’s a superb problem and that’s extra so the place we have been centered with this album.”
NME gave Wolf Alice’s Glastonbury 2025 efficiency 5 stars, writing: “The vitality they pour into right now’s set seems like that of a band who needs to be topping the Pyramid Stage subsequent time they play Worthy Farm.
“Because the set ends with ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’ – a robust contender for among the finest, most dizzyingly correct love songs ever written – that feeling solely intensifies. That music finds Rowsell writing herself a romantic Hollywood ending; Wolf Alice’s world-beating set does the identical for Glastonbury 2025.”
