Wolf Alice have announced a new album, The Clearing, set for release on August 29 via RCA. Leading the British rock quartet’s follow-up to 2021’s Blue Weekend is the new song “Bloom Baby Bloom.” Watch the single’s music video below.
Wolf Alice wrote their new album in the Seven Sisters neighborhood of north London. They recorded it in Los Angeles with producer Greg Kurstin.
Discussing the new single, in a press statement, Wolf Alice’s lead singer, Ellie Rowsell, said, “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 continued, “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, 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.”
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