Sofa Session: Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their new album, Blue Weekend.
Wolf Alice play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their new album, Blue Weekend.
Blue Weekend is the follow-up album to 2018鈥檚 Mercury Prize-winning Visions of a Life.
鈥淭his album is for other people,鈥� said vocalist-guitarist Ellie Rowsell. 鈥淪ometimes you hear a song and it makes you feel better, or you hear a song and it makes you feel seen. I remember feeling blue about something, and thinking, 鈥業 wonder what songs I can listen to that will be about what I鈥檓 feeling right now鈥�. It was almost as if I was desperate to feel better about something, and I would go down any path to feel not alone in something, or to understand it more. And I鈥檝e never really done that before intentionally, I鈥檇 never really sought it out.鈥�
Wolf Alice are Ellie Rowsell (vocals, guitar), Joff Oddie (guitar, vocals), Theo Ellis (bass) and Joel Amey (drums, vocals). It has been a decade since the band began as a duo of Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie, then later expanding to a four-piece, with Joel Amey and Theo Ellis joining the group.
Since then, the band saw their 2015 debut album My Love Is Cool soar to #2 on the UK charts, their sophomore album Visions Of A Life win the 2018 Hyundai Mercury prize, and a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Performance.
The band played a massive 187 shows on the Visions Of A Life world tour - including a sold-out Alexandra Palace, 2 sold-out dates at Brixton Academy, and a set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
It was no surprise that creating a follow-up to Visions Of A Life was a daunting task. The record was a huge success, which subsequently led to many months spent on tour - with intercontinental flights, hotels and long-bus journeys taking a toll on the band.
The band decamped to an Airbnb in Somerset, and it was here that they reconfigured who they were together, far away from festival stages, tour buses, awards shows, and fans. They cemented their friendship and set to work on some fledgling demos in a converted church. These demos evolved into Blue Weekend, a record produced by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Florence + The Machine) who has aided the band in refining their sound to an even sharper point.
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Jungle
Talk About It
- Loving In Stereo.
- Caiola Records.
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Wolf Alice
Don't Delete The Kisses
- Don't Delete The Kisses.
- RCA.
- 1.
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Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes
Happy Just To Know
- A1.
- Wow & Flutter Records.
- 03.
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Lorde
Solar Power
- Solar Power.
- Universal Music New Zealand.
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Groove Armada
At The River
- (CD Single).
- Pepper.
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Gang of Youths
the angel of 8th ave.
- the angel of 8th ave..
- warner.
- 1.
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Herbie Hancock
I Thought It Was You (Directstep Version)
- Club Tropicana (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Dead or Alive
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
- Wave Party (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
- 4.
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The Chemical Brothers
The Darkness That You Fear
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Pa Salieu
Energy (feat. Mahalia)
- Warner Records.
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Wolf Alice
The Last Man On Earth (Radio 2 Session, 16 June 2021)
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Wolf Alice
No Hard Feelings (Radio 2 Session, 16 June 2021)
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Wolf Alice
Dirty Work (Radio 2 Session, 16 June 2021)
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The Beatles
Rocky Racoon
- The Beatles (The White Album).
- Apple.
- 13.
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Dog Eat Dog
- Legend.
- Universal-Island Records Limited.
- 11.
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George Moir
Baked Beans
- Guide To Growing.
- Infectious Music.
- 1.
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Orlando Weeks
Big Skies, Silly Faces
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Taylor Swift
exile (feat. Bon Iver)
- folklore.
- TS/Republic.
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Joan Baez
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H.
- Old Gold.
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