Seminal British band WOLF ALICE have returned with new single Bloom Baby Bloom alongside highly anticipated news of their fourth studio album The Clearing, confirmed for release on 29 August via their new global label, Sony Music. 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.
Bloom Baby Bloom marks the beginning of an exciting era for Wolf Alice. A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing, it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of new music in three years is a whip-smart detestosteroned twist on heavy rock.
“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,” Ellie Rowsell notes. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past and playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope. 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.”
Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding up a mirror to their own emerging generation. Today, The Clearing finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated Moaning Lisa Smile, both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, the 2018 follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Blue Weekend and its resultant Brit Award for Best Group.
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