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Alice reportedly have their own imitable way of fine-tuning their material by playing their music over movie trailers as part of an effort to enhance its cinematic qualities. This approach paid dividends in 2017, when they were chosen to soundtrack a pivotal closing scene in T2 Trainspotting. While the surprisingly brilliant Danny Boyle-directed sequel didnât quite have the same cultural impact of the trailblazing original in 1996, it helped put Wolf Alice ( as well as Young Fathers) firmly on the map.
The London band subsequently won the 2018 Mercury Music Prize for their second album, Visions of a Life, which then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backed in an ultimately unsuccessful chart battle against Shania Twain in return for singer Ellie Rowsellâs endorsement of him in the 2017 general election.
“Everything’s a bit more focused on the lyrics and the melody” – An Interview with Wolf Alice
Credit: Jordan Hemingway “Everything’s a bit more focused on the lyrics and the melody” – An Interview with Wolf Alice By Connie Seamer on
After their Mercury Prize-winning
Blue Weekend. I sat down with Ellie and Joel to chat about the new record.
Blue Weekend signals the band’s full realisation of their sound. While it sounds familiar to their previous records, the new album takes Wolf Alice in a new, more mature, direction.
On these differences in the new album’s sound, Ellie quotes another journalist who described it as “fuller and wider, yet simpler”. “I can’t quite elaborate on it but I feel like she got it right”, she says.
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