Wolf alice pitchfork12/28/2023 Wolf Alice’s ambitions shine bright on the cohesively brilliant and expansive Blue WeekendĪ stunning return and one that should cement Wolf Alice’s reputation still furtherĭefinitely not a reinvention, it plays to the band’s strengths while amplifying new qualities, a record as bruising as it is subtle. With a newfound simplicity, the dynamic shifts hang together around earnest vocals and mature songwriting to produce not only a sonic achievement but an emotionally intimate oneĪ great return from one of Britain’s brightest sparks Blue Weekend is indeed all it's hyped up to be If there’s any justice in this world, Blue Weekend will be the album that finally convinces audiences outside of the UK-and specifically here, stateside-of their brillianceĪ true coming-of-age record for a band that's been knocking on the door for some time now. Never mind the Mercury Prize – this is an album with its sights firmly set on the Grammys But that’s fine, because when you have moments of pure beauty like this, you don’t need fancy clothes to cover themīlue Weekend is Wolf Alice’s best work yet – a confident, euphoric, blistering 40 minutes that’s guaranteed to be on many people’s ‘best of’ lists at the end of the year. Noticeably simpler in sound than was perhaps expected, some songs are stripped right back to the barest of bones. If you imagine their old songs as rally cars, the new ones are still driven as wildly, but with steelier focus and in-built roll cages On their third and best album, the London four-piece embrace a more polished, widescreen sound that serves their sharp writing on late-20s anxieties The Londoners cement their place at the peak of British music with a stunningly good third albumĪ history book-cementing document of a band at the peak of their powers Sort by ADM rating Sort by most recent review
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