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 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend, 3rd album out 11/6/21; 'Smile' out 20/4/21 |
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 9th June 2021, 02:36 PM
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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. 
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10th June 2021, 05:09 AM
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 I'm a paragon so don't perceive me
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'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.
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11th June 2021, 06:19 PM
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 A dead mouse (from my cat)
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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! |
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24th June 2021, 10:09 AM
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Ok so my favourite song has changed to 'Delicious Things' after listening this week again, changes all the time though!!
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30th June 2021, 11:57 PM
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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. |
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1st July 2021, 12:50 AM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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Absolutely loving "Play The Greatest Hits" at the moment! Definitely the standout for me
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26th July 2021, 09:12 PM
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Jo Whiley played How Can I Make It OK? earlier tonight and said it's their new single. Glad that's their choice tbh
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27th July 2021, 09:54 AM
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Shakin Stevens
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Yeh Annie’s been playing that a lot on her evening shows - hopefully will be playlisted in the coming month!
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19th September 2021, 05:47 PM
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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.
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22nd September 2021, 03:21 PM
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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
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29th October 2021, 01:21 PM
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‘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!
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5th May 2022, 04:14 PM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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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 |
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3rd December 2022, 12:06 AM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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Their gorgeous cover of ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ has been released on all streaming platforms today! (It was previously Apple Music-only)
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3rd December 2022, 09:55 AM
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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.
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5th December 2022, 09:44 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Same here, do love the hymn as well though!
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