Wolf Alice have appeared on BBC Radio One’s Live Lounge and performed a dreamy cover of the Olivia Dean song ‘Nice To Each Other’. Check it out below.
The appearance comes following the band sharing their fourth studio album, ‘The Clearing’, on August 22 via Sony.
That record follows on from their debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’, the Mercury Prize-winning sophomore release ‘Visions Of A Life’, and 2022’s cinematic ‘Blue Weekend’.
During a new appearance on the Live Lounge, the band played two songs from their latest release, ‘Thorns’ and ‘Just Two Girls’, as well as a rarely-played B-side from their debut album called ‘White Leather’.
Explaining why they chose the latter, and if it has any connection to their latest material, singer Ellie Rowsell said: “No, I don’t even know if it fits in with the new vibe, but it’s quite emotional and maybe we’re a bit nostalgic for the past. It reminds us of our teenage selves. It’s a nice hit of nostalgia.”
For the cover section of the Live Lounge, the band opted to go for the ethereal Olivia Dean song ‘Nice To Each Other’ – taken from her ‘The Art of Loving’ album. In their rendition, Rowsell captures the same enchanting aura with her soaring vocals, while her bandmates introduce a steady groove.
Check it out below.
In the interview, the band shared how they are so often focused on their upcoming plans that they rarely take time to look back at their journey so far, and how they have grown since they first emerged on the music scene.
“I don’t know if we feel that reflective, normally we’re just on to the next thing and focusing on what we’ve got coming up,” they explained. “We’re ready to go on tour, we’re playing in America in a couple of weeks, then we go to Europe, then we go to the UK at the end of the year. So we’ve always got something to focus on.”
Looking at their nod to deep cut, ‘White Leather’, they added: “Bringing back an old song like that, sometimes it just pops back naturally, and all of us seem to grow fond of it again.”
‘The Clearing’ was given a glowing five star review from NME, and praised for the vision that the members were able to bring to life. “‘The Clearing’ is the kind of album that could only be written after the dust has settled on your twenties and the post-30 clarity sets in,” it reads. “It is, as ‘Bread Butter Tea Sugar’ and ‘The Sofa’ affirm, a record that doesn’t gloss over flaws, but accepts them and revels in them.”
“Just as we all (hopefully) get older and wiser with every year, Wolf Alice are the kind of band that keep on getting better with every record, and here, they raise the bar on themselves once again.”
In June, the band spoke to NME at Glastonbury about how the response to their third album shaped their approach to ‘The Clearing’, and after their set, NME gave their performance the full marks , writing: “The energy they pour into today’s set feels like that of a band who should be topping the Pyramid Stage next time they play Worthy Farm.”
