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Scoop
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Wolf Alice Unveil New Single 'The Sofa'
Beloved British band Wolf Alice share new single, 'The Sofa' - another dimension to their highly anticipated fourth studio album The Clearing confirmed for release on August 22nd via Mushroom Music. Following a triumphant return to the stage with headlining festival performances at Primavera and a history-defining Glastonbury set on home soil, this new era announces Wolf Alice as a band who are in a league entirely of their own. 'The Sofa' is the album's psychological portrait which is a microcosm of the wider themes it reckons with: falling in love with your life for exactly what it is and finally letting go of unrealised dreams without shame, guilt or disappointment as you grow older. Unspooling like a daydream on an idle afternoon, 'The Sofa' is a piano ballad fortified by the best songwriting of Ellie Rowsell's career - radical in its unflinching honesty. 'Didn't make it out to California / Where I thought I might clean the slate / Feels a little like I'm stuck in Seven Sisters / North London, oh England / And maybe that's ok,' Rowsell sings. In abandoning the self-consciousness which weighs down your twenties, Wolf Alice reach a point of hard-won serenity. Advertisement - scroll to continue reading 'It's about not trying so hard to figure everything out, reflecting on getting older and trying not to agonise over things that have or haven't happened in your life. It's also about trying to get to grips with the polarising aspects of one's life when you're in a band. You've just played a huge tour - and you come home, and you have your dinner on the sofa. For me, it's summed up in how I treat TV. I used to never watch the same thing twice because I thought I've got so much to discover! And now I'm like, It's okay if I just want to rewatch Peep Show for the thirteenth time.' – Ellie Rowsell Shot on the streets of the band's native North London in homage to the lyrics, the video for 'The Sofa' captures the day-dreamy spirit of the song in boldly-coloured slow motion. Ellie is transported on a surreal fantasy through the euphoric messiness of British summertime street life while never leaving the comfort of her sofa. Inspired by classic street photography, these vignettes capture the blissed-out interactions of people from all walks of life, celebrating the shared joy we feel with strangers on a sunny day. The video was directed by Fiona Jane Burgess (Christina Aguilera, girlinred, Gucci) and features numerous easter eggs for the band's upcoming album. The single release follows Wolf Alice's victorious return to Glastonbury Festival this past month, performing a razor-sharp set of hits to a sunset crowd on the Other Stage on Sunday afternoon. Combining fan favourites such as 'Bros' and 'Don't Delete The Kisses' with jubilant new singles 'Bloom Baby Bloom' and 'The Sofa' - the slot felt like a victory lap for a band truly at the peak of their powers. Written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion; The Clearing is a truly timeless record.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wolf Alice Returns With Bold New Single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom,' Announces Fourth Album
If anyone has cause to celebrate this week, it's Wolf Alice fans. After waiting four years for a new album from the British rock band, the group announced that its fourth LP, The Clearing, is arriving this summer on Aug. 29. The news lands alongside lead single 'Bloom Baby Bloom,' which vocalist and guitarist Ellie Rowsell has described in a statement as a rejection of 'the 'girl singer in band' trope' that she has been made subject to in the past. '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,' she shared in a press release. 'I've used the guitar as a shield in the past … 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.' More from Billboard Wolf Alice Is Teasing a Comeback — and It Could Be the Band's Biggest Era Yet Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now The accompanying video for 'Bloom Baby Bloom,' meanwhile, was made in collaboration with director Colin Solal Cardo, renowned for his work with Charli xcx, Robyn and Phoenix. It sees Rowsell perform alongside a troupe of dancers, with choreography from Ryan Heffington, the visionary behind Sia's iconic 'Chandelier' video. The Clearing will be released via Wolf Alice's new label home of Sony Music, whom the band signed with last year after completing a three-album contract with Dirty Hit (The 1975, Beabadoobee). The forthcoming record was written in Seven Sisters, north London, and recorded in Los Angeles with the Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin in late 2024. A tracklist for the album is yet to be announced, but the band has shared its artwork, which features Rowsell singing into a vintage microphone while wearing an olive-green leotard and knee-high leather boots. Comprised of Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie, bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey, the four-piece will prepare for the arrival of the new LP with a series of U.K. and Irish shows in the coming weeks. The band is scheduled to perform intimate theater gigs in Kilkenny, Cork and Limerick May 19-21, ahead of appearances at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool (May 24) and Glastonbury on June 28. Blue Weekend, the band's last full-length effort, arrived in 2021 and topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart before leading the group to its first-ever BRIT award the following year. It was also nominated for the Mercury Prize, which Wolf Alice won for 2017's Visions of a Life. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
