Posted by: lewistgreen 24th February 2021, 06:11 PM
Out now, video at 7. STUNNING
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th February 2021, 06:17 PM
New album 'Blue Weekend' out on June 11th!
1. The Beach 2. Delicious Things 3. Lipstick On The Glass 4. Smile 5. Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love) 6. How Can I Make It OK? 7. Play The Greatest Hits 8. Feeling Myself 9. The Last Man On Earth 10. No Hard Feelings 11. The Beach II
Posted by: Liam.k. 24th February 2021, 06:32 PM
This sounds beautiful! I love the way it changes throughout the song.
Hopefully they can achieve a #1 album this time after missing out with their last two by less than 1k!!
04/06/15 01. 14,419 Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 02. 13,891 Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
12/10/17 01. 20,097 Shania Twain - Now 02. 19,333 Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th February 2021, 07:26 PM
Video!
Posted by: steve201 25th February 2021, 10:21 PM
Wow this blew me away with the development of the song, a lot different to what I thought it’d be like
Posted by: Liam.k. 26th February 2021, 01:47 AM
#1 on New Music Friday!
Posted by: lewistgreen 26th February 2021, 02:15 PM
This honestly just gets better with every listen tbh
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 26th February 2021, 02:45 PM
and it's gone straight to the Radio 1 A-list!
Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 4th March 2021, 09:37 PM
This is really clicking with me - not paid much attention to Wolf Alice before but I really like! It's stuck around on iTunes all week as well, whilst in itself that means nothing charts-wise it does show that it's been consistently popular throughout the week.
Posted by: Jade 5th March 2021, 09:25 PM
This is stunning - I don’t really know much about them except the beautiful contribution to alt-j’s ‘3WW’. What would you guys recommend from them?
Posted by: lewistgreen 5th March 2021, 09:31 PM
QUOTE(Jade @ Mar 5 2021, 09:25 PM)
This is stunning - I don’t really know much about them except the beautiful contribution to alt-j’s ‘3WW’. What would you guys recommend from them?
Don't Delete The Kisses and Beautifully Unconventional are my fave singles. Giant Peach is also great from their first album!
Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 5th March 2021, 09:34 PM
Don't Delete The Kisses is absolutely stunning, one of my favourite songs of all time no doubt.
They've such a varied collection of songs overall, the first half of their debut is perfection (well, if you replace Bros with the original EP version anyway!) - I find Silk massively underrated. The only song I've never really clicked with at all is Yuk Foo, thought it was such a weak return last time.
I am really liking this so far, can it being a massive grower. Have pre-ordered the vinyl, I went green from their website but looks like there are other options too,
Posted by: Liam.k. 5th March 2021, 09:35 PM
Yeah I definitely think you'll like 'Don't Delete the Kisses', Jade. My favourite is their performance for Mercury Prize:
Posted by: Jade 5th March 2021, 09:48 PM
Thank you all for the speedy recommendations *.* will check them all out over the weekend!
My brother saw them as a support act for Liam Gallagher before so I can ask him what he enjoyed most too
Posted by: Doctor Blind 5th March 2021, 11:05 PM
“Blush” I would also heartily recommend Jade - it was on their second EP, released in late 2013. Maybe “Wednesday” from their debut EP, it's a bit more electropop.
Posted by: Liam.k. 5th March 2021, 11:50 PM
Debuts at #34 on the official sales chart. They also performed on Jools Holland tonight:
Honestly can't get over this song, it's so beautiful.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th March 2021, 11:56 PM
QUOTE(Jade @ Mar 5 2021, 09:48 PM)
Thank you all for the speedy recommendations *.* will check them all out over the weekend!
My brother saw them as a support act for Liam Gallagher before so I can ask him what he enjoyed most too
Wolf Alice are a pretty bizarre support act for LG! quite a different crowd, hopefully it went down well though
Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 6th March 2021, 12:29 PM
The Jools Holland performance was exceptional
Posted by: lewistgreen 7th March 2021, 04:24 PM
QUOTE(RabbitFurCoat @ Mar 6 2021, 12:29 PM)
The Jools Holland performance was exceptional
Oh wow!
Posted by: Jade 8th March 2021, 04:16 PM
^ wow that performance was goosebump inducing <3
Thanks for all of the recommendations. I did indeed enjoy 'Don't Delete The Kisses' although the chorus sounds very familiar... has it been used in an advert? I decided to check out the 'My Name Is Cool' album in addition to individual song mentions and was so impressed <3 I think I'll just give everything a go now and eagerly anticipate the new album too *.*
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Mar 5 2021, 11:56 PM)
Wolf Alice are a pretty bizarre support act for LG! quite a different crowd, hopefully it went down well though
Yeah DMAs who also supported seem like more of what I would expect. However my brother said both did go down well!
Posted by: steve201 8th March 2021, 07:11 PM
I await your unveiling of the vinyl Jade!!
Posted by: Jade 8th March 2021, 08:55 PM
QUOTE(steve201 @ Mar 8 2021, 07:11 PM)
I await your unveiling of the vinyl Jade!!
I must admit that I'm tempted by the green one on their store! Will wait for at least one more song I think and then pre-order.
I actually decided to buy 'My Love Is Cool' today though as recordstore.co.uk have a 10% off deal for International Women's Day *.*
Posted by: Bré 14th March 2021, 10:38 PM
As this song seems to have single-handedly turned Jade into a Wolf Alice stan this probably isn't surprising but yeah this is really great isn't it.
Feeling a little bit of a Bowie vibe?
Posted by: steve201 15th March 2021, 10:39 AM
Yeh def Bowie vibes in the name too, It also reminds me of one of the episodes of 'The Walking Dead Dont ask me why though!!
Posted by: lewistgreen 11th April 2021, 11:27 AM
NEW MUSIC IMMINENT OMG
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 11th April 2021, 02:52 PM
Where are you seeing that?
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th April 2021, 09:22 PM
"Smile" is out on Tuesday!
Posted by: Jade 15th April 2021, 09:27 PM
Ooooh that preview! 🔥 surprised by how dirty the bass sounds after how majestic 'The Last Man on Earth' was. Can't wait for this!
Posted by: steve201 16th April 2021, 12:12 AM
Think this will be a grat? Second single will be in and around 11th May one month before the album release, this will be to keep interest and preorder sales going! So could be a non commercial banger like Yuk Fu!
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 20th April 2021, 03:43 PM
Can't wait for this tonight!
Posted by: lewistgreen 20th April 2021, 05:14 PM
More of what I expected from them on this one. I'm not sure of it initially
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 20th April 2021, 09:32 PM
Yeah it was just decent on first listen, I reckon it'll be a grower though
Posted by: Jade 21st April 2021, 06:35 AM
This isn’t as good as ‘The Last Man on Earth’ (what is?) but I’m loving it nevertheless *.*
Posted by: steve201 21st April 2021, 05:13 PM
I agree ‘Last Man On Earth’ has turned into my song of the year - 7 weeks as number one on my chart which I don’t think has happened. 😀 I always think every week I make the chart there’s bound to be something else I’m enjoying but there isn’t lol.
Posted by: Dircadirca 3rd May 2021, 02:06 PM
Release date pushed forward a week!
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 3rd May 2021, 02:14 PM
Good to hear! Was hoping that Easy Life could potentially snatch a #1 this week, but alas. (It might've been James at the top anyway, who I'm less fussed about)
Posted by: Dircadirca 3rd May 2021, 02:19 PM
I was wondering if there was some sneaky label politics with this about #1 album potential and not wanting them to get stuck at #2 for a 3rd time
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 3rd May 2021, 02:22 PM
100%
Posted by: Bré 3rd May 2021, 03:55 PM
Yeah this is definitely just being moved because of Noel Gallagher's GH album being announced for the same week it was meant to be out lol - cool that they have moved it forwards instead of backwards though.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th May 2021, 06:07 PM
'Smile' performance
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 6th May 2021, 11:12 AM
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ May 3 2021, 03:14 PM)
Good to hear! Was hoping that Easy Life could potentially snatch a #1 this week, but alas. (It might've been James at the top anyway, who I'm less fussed about)
Easy Life have now brought their album forward a week
all these labels moving the release schedule they all learned from Westlife
Posted by: Jade 21st May 2021, 10:48 AM
Just realised that no-one ever posted this:
Each single continues to sound nothing like the last! This is lovely although I'm not quite as gripped as the first two yet. Possibly because of the very short length on such a spaced out song... perhaps it'll be a nice bridging the gap moment in the context of the full album.
It seems to be quite popular to reference Amy Winehouse right now - 'Tears Dry On Their Own' in 'Introvert' by Little Simz recently and I picked up on a 'Love Is A Losing Game' one here too!
Posted by: Sour Candy 4th June 2021, 07:39 AM
That's Mercury Prize right there
The album is amazing.
Posted by: Sour Candy 4th June 2021, 07:40 AM
Posted by: steve201 4th June 2021, 11:45 AM
‘Feeling Myself’ definitely the best track on there from first listen, another 10/10 smash!
Posted by: Jade 4th June 2021, 01:28 PM
Woah this is incredible! The lyrics pack a confident, emotive punch and Ellie sounds majestic throughout. Honestly almost everything is a highlight but on first listen my top favourites from the new songs are 'How Can I Make It OK?', 'Feeling Myself' + 'The Beach II', all of them hit me like a tonne of bricks. Can't wait for the vinyl to arrive
Love that their Twitter picture is still Måneskin right now mixed rock bands thriving <3
Posted by: Doctor Blind 4th June 2021, 04:38 PM
So excited to hear this, they delivered with the lead single and most of the teaser tracks have also been great.
Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 4th June 2021, 05:01 PM
My vinyl hasn't arrived yet and my wi-fi is down so can't access my decent Sonos I really want to listen to this but want to hear it in decent sound quality - don't like my phone/earphones much
So hyped for it - have listened to their catalogue a lot since The Last Man on Earth came out - they really don't have a poor song across any of their albums and EPs, Yuk Foo is the one I take too least and that's fine. Their performance at Live at Worthy Farm was superb too.
Posted by: gooddelta 7th June 2021, 04:20 PM
A really good album, How Can I Make It Ok? is maybe my favourite from them so far. Safe From Heartbreak was another fave on first listen. Apparently on course for No.1 outselling the top five combined and, James and Olivia who is still streaming well can’t be that easy to easily get in front of by five times so it must be set for strong sales.
Posted by: Doctor Blind 9th June 2021, 10:20 AM
QUOTE(RabbitFurCoat @ Jun 4 2021, 06:01 PM)
Their performance at Live at Worthy Farm was superb too.
Ooft, I've not seen that yet!
This album is really speaking to me on so many levels, brilliant to see them grow and grow with each LP and fingers crossed for the #1 on Friday after twice ending up in the runners-up slot!!
Posted by: steve201 9th June 2021, 11:23 AM
They really are developing into one of the biggest bands in the country imo, but I am biased!
Posted by: blacksquare 9th June 2021, 11:26 AM
'How Can I Make It Ok?' didn't need to step on my neck like this — the Kate Bush vibes are stunning.
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 9th June 2021, 02:36 PM
I've not really delved in to their music before, but I'm quite enjoying this album!
I love how it can go from something quite hard-hitting like 'How Can I Make It OK?' to brash, wacky and downright bonkers like 'Play The Greatest Hits' on the next track.
Posted by: Iz 💀 10th June 2021, 05:09 AM
'Play The Greatest Hits' is a fantastic standout on an otherwise very refined album. Love them doing both styles, though I admit I gravitate a bit more to their out and rocky ones like that one.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 11th June 2021, 06:19 PM
Now officially their first #1 album! Much higher sales than their previous as well.
"Smile" and "How Can I Make It OK" also sneak in the singles chart at #88 and #93!
Posted by: steve201 24th June 2021, 10:09 AM
Ok so my favourite song has changed to 'Delicious Things' after listening this week again, changes all the time though!!
Posted by: Bré 30th June 2021, 11:57 PM
Fashionably late review from me - 'The Last Man On Earth' remains quite easily my song of the year so far and not sure I see anything topping it but I wasn't a huge fan of 'Smile' and also thought 'No Hard Feelings' was pretty lovely but didn't sound like single material which made me a little apprehensive about the rest of the album, but my hype was restored a bit by 'How Can I Make It OK?' (which did take a couple of listens to fully click with me but now that it has it's another stunner of a track) and it turns out they did just save a lot of the best songs as album tracks, I can't fathom why 'No Hard Feelings' was chosen as a teaser track over 'Lipstick On The Glass', 'The Beach', 'Delicious Things'...?! (And I'd say the same about 'Smile' but with it being the most popular song from the album I can't really say it was a bad single choice lmao, it's just still pretty low on my own ranking of the album). Particularly loving the trip-hop vibes on LOTG <3 'Play The Greatest Hits' kind of sounds like an old demo from a different era of the band that was put on this album accidentally, sticks out like a sore thumb, but I do really enjoy it in its own right - may have been intentional though given the title of the song? I think the only song that I'd call a real dud on here is 'Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love)', somewhat pleasant but it's B-side material at best.
A little sad that 'The Last Man On Earth' still came nowhere near charting even with the album release but I'll accept 'How Can I Make It OK?' going top 100 instead, and great that they managed the #1 album too. And after all the kerfuffle about it being pulled forward a week, it had higher opening sales than the Noel album anyway lmao
BTW it looks like they are dropping a music video for every song on the album - since the album release they've been drip feeding videos for the album tracks, about one per week going in the order of the tracklist, 'Play The Greatest Hits' just dropped today so I guess it'll be 'Feeling Myself' next week if the pattern continues.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 1st July 2021, 12:50 AM
Absolutely loving "Play The Greatest Hits" at the moment! Definitely the standout for me
Posted by: lewistgreen 26th July 2021, 09:12 PM
Jo Whiley played How Can I Make It OK? earlier tonight and said it's their new single. Glad that's their choice tbh
Posted by: steve201 27th July 2021, 09:54 AM
Yeh Annie’s been playing that a lot on her evening shows - hopefully will be playlisted in the coming month!
Posted by: zenon 19th September 2021, 05:47 PM
The verses of How Can I Make it Ok has echoes of Fleetwood's Mac's Rhiannon while the chorus sounds like a Haim song.
Posted by: dannjohn 22nd September 2021, 03:21 PM
its so amusing to me that joff's band is doing so well... we went to school together for a year (before I left) and I got invited to their Shepherds Bush aftershow and he remembered me
Posted by: steve201 29th October 2021, 01:21 PM
‘Delicious Things’ is the next song that’s been sent to radio and has been played a bit on the evening shows. Not sure how much they will push it but can see radio 1 playlist it considering how big this album has been on the station this year!
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th May 2022, 04:14 PM
WA are releasing an EP on June 24th titled 'Blue Lullaby' featuring slower 'lullaby' versions of a few songs! The new version of 'The Last Man on Earth' is out now.
Tracklisting:
1. No Hard Feelings 2. Lipstick On The Glass 3. How Can I Make It OK? 4. The Last Man On Earth
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 3rd December 2022, 12:06 AM
Their gorgeous cover of ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ has been released on all streaming platforms today! (It was previously Apple Music-only)
Posted by: lewistgreen 3rd December 2022, 09:55 AM
Oh I love this, that intro is very haunting. Can't say I've ever thought about putting any incarnation of this song on a Christmas playlist but this one has been added to mine.
they all learned from Westlife 
I really want to listen to this but want to hear it in decent sound quality - don't like my phone/earphones much
Much higher sales than their previous as well.