Wolf Alice

it still seemed to maintain an individual sensibility even as it careened between these styles

Yeah, the stylistic shifts were jarring to me at first, especially Swallowtail and Freazy. But I grew to like the whole thing pretty quickly. The variety makes it work well as an album.

i feel like they sorta have three modes: aggressive and sludgy, dreamy and shimmery, and the few songs that occupy the center of that venn diagram ("your loves whore"/"lisbon"?).

Was just going to say something like this, though I hadn't figured out how to describe their modes. I don't think their is such outrageous variety in their work at all. The latest song sounds of a piece with similar tracks on their first album. I like it much better than Yuk Foo, but not sure how much I like it as such.

at least half of their template for the last album seemed to be "shutterbug" by veruca salt and i think this explains why i like them so much.

prefer the demo of Your Love's Whore to the album version but I get why they re-calibrated it for the album

Lollaalooza 2016 video kicking my ass - not since Queens or Pj has a band rocked my ass off so much

I had tickets to see them at Rock and Roll Hotel (a 400 capacity venue) on Friday night and had to sell them at the last minute because something came up. Hopefully they'll come back in 2018 and play 9:30 club or something.

obligatory Zane Lowe interview is up on Beats1 now, which I don't have access to, but usually they repost on youtube within a day or so.

https://www.facebook.com/wolfalicemusic/photos/a.587979837917999.1073741825.156582101057777/1377229045659737/?type=3&theater

Don't Delete The Kisses rules

No, but Beautifully Unconventional rules.

The beginning keeps reminding me of whatever sample "1 Thing" is built around.

Why doesn't Don't Delete Your Kisses rule? yeah just hearing beautifully unconventional, man this band is so classic. 1 Thing is The Meters sample yeah

I'm just not into the spoken word part that's woven through it. I don't have any organized argument about it (and if I did it would probably be bullshit like most such arguments about aesthetic likes and dislikes are, however cleverly spun).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etn4P80K5WU

"don't delete the kisses" makes me feel like i can sprint to the ends of the earth and back

love how every time the chorus hits in "don't delete the kisses" the arrangement ups it a notch, making it gradually more powerful. It's a great song of tension and release

the don't delete kisses live version on 101.9 Kink turns the song into a slow burner, check that out if you haven't :)

holy shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNX7M9owRWQ

fuck this is such a classic band

Awesome! So excited about this album.

New album is great. It's definitely an evolution from their first

Apparently their U.S. distributor fucked up the vinyl pre-orders, in case you are a USian who did that. Can't wait to listen to this first thing in the morning on Spotify, in any case.

album of the month in Mojo which raised an eyebrow.

Maybe not so surprising. I haven't heard the whole album yet but to my ears "Beautifully Unconventional" sounds pretty classic rock, without even stretching the term.

yeah not surprised on Mojo nod - this is about as good as rock records get. The new one is less superficially heavy than the first album, but they've found new ways to incorporate barbed riffs into mellower songs and seemed to find more of a consistent middle ground between heavy/sublime here. This record flows great

I'm loving this on first listen. Nobody in the US seems to know who they are, but it's their loss. I'm glad to see they avoided the sophomore jinx.

album is sick, meldal-johnson killed it

Haven't had time to fully digest it but I love it. A couple of the songs are heavier than the heaviest moments on the last album, which I was not expecting at all but is a cool surprise.

Nobody in the US seems to know who they are

Well, you know, there's the language barrier.

Love their accents! Was thinking today it makes me like them more

this is SO GOOD

This album puts some solid gold up front but crucially the second half is so vital and heavy, lifting you back up. Really an ace lesson in how to structure a consistently good album

It never really hits a lull tbh

this is sounding very very good right now

i loooooooooooooove “space and time”

^ reminds me of Eno! "Needles in the Camel's Eye". Could mash well together on a playlist

I hate to say it but I'm once again ambivalent about the album as a whole. I still need to gives it some more listens. There best work is getting better, however. Planet Hunter is probably my favorite Wolf Alice song so far. I'd rather see them combining their modes, like that, rather than working very dreamy some of the time and very screamy the other part of the time. Not too thrilled with the mostly spoken sections either. Once again, Ellie is a solid enough vocalist that she should be singing rather than speech-singing, and preferably without a ton of effects.

Listening to Planet Hunter again and I find it hard to believe this song even exists as a new song in 2017. Instant classic.

Lol rudipherous when I heard this album I thought you're not gonna like at least 3 songs here (which feature the spoken sections)

preferably without a ton of effects.

My one criticism is that her voice gets buried in the reverb a lot more on this one.

I was looking forward to this album despite not really enjoying the first one, because you could see the potential was there for them to do something really great, and this sounded terrific on first listen.

It's an uneven record (the downside of going for variety, laudable as that is) - and yeah too much reverb - but "Beautifully Unconventional" and the last three songs are all fantastic.

Whose voice does she remind me of on Space + Time? I can't quite place it and it's driving me nuts.

Really burned out on this one by overplaying. Still love heavenwards, planet hunter, beautifully unconventional and don't delete the kisses. First one had a ton of bonus tracks which gave it a lot of playability

After helping Labour beat the odds in the election, it's great to see @WolfAliceMusic doing the same in the charts. https://t.co/H3sdVFpZVr

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 5, 2017

The Absolutely Right Boy

Thanks Jeremy! I did wonder...

Whose voice does she remind me of on Space + Time? I can't quite place it and it's driving me nuts.

― how's life, Monday, October 2, 2017 4:44 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'Neko Case fronting Trompe le Monde-era Pixies' is the best I can come up with here.

Pros: The opening track is amazing, as is 'Don't Delete the Kisses' ...
Cons: This record has 'Beautifully Unconventional' on it, which is fucking awful.

thanks

Most of this record ranges from very good to amazing, though the production is wretched in places.