Richards, Will (12 June 2017). "Wolf Alice return! Hear 'Yuk Foo' from new album 'Vision of a Life' ". DIY . Retrieved 13 June 2017. Jones, Craig (5 October 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life". musicOMH . Retrieved 6 October 2017. One ending Rowsell couldn’t write, unfortunately, was the one that she (and about 13 million others) wanted for this summer’s general election, though Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable rise from media punchline to prime-minister-in-waiting has given them hope that meaningful change is more attainable than ever. Wolf Alice unveil 'Heavenward' from forthcoming album, 'Visions of a Life' ". DIY. 18 September 2017 . Retrieved 18 September 2017.

WolfAliceVEVO (11 August 2017). "Wolf Alice – Don't Delete the Kisses". YouTube . Retrieved 11 August 2017. Wolf Alice formed in 2010, initially as a duo comprised of Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie. Drummer Joel Amey and bassist Theo Ellis joined the band in 2012. They signed to the independent British label Dirty Hit, also home to the 1975, and in 2015 released their debut album My Love Is Cool, after building their profile through extensive touring. The album was nominated for the 2015 Mercury prize but lost to Benjamin Clementine. They have been commended for their genre-fluid approach to guitar music, incorporating elements of dream-pop and, on their blistering 2017 single Yuk Foo, hardcore punk. In 2017 they also starred in On the Road, a fictional romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom, set on a Wolf Alice tour. Jones, Alan (6 October 2017). "Official Charts Analysis: Shania Twain takes No. 1 in close battle with Wolf Alice". Music Week . Retrieved 6 October 2017.Nadine Shah was the bookmakers’ favourite to win for her third album, Holiday Destination, leading the jazz outfit Sons of Kemet and south London guitarist King Krule. Before the ceremony, Shah criticised what she perceived as the prize’s creeping similarity to the more mainstream Brit awards. “Now the Mercury is actually run by the same company, the BPI [British Phonographic Industry], I think it needs to find its feet again. It’s controversial of me to say so, but I do criticise it for that. It needs to establish once again, what is it that they’re trying to do. Why is Noel Gallagher being nominated? Why are there only two debut albums?”

Formidable Cool (Edit) – Single by Wolf Alice". iTunes Store. United Kingdom. 16 February 2018 . Retrieved 23 March 2018. Nelson, Geoff (22 September 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 26 September 2017. After the referendum last year, I kept hearing friends of mine, and even journalists, talking about Brexit in a much clearer, more informed way,” agrees Rowsell. “The problem was that it all came way too late. Why weren’t we having this conversation before? So when the snap election got called, it was like, ‘OK, let’s do everything we did after Brexit, but let’s do it right now. There’s this image of politics as posh white men in the Houses of Parliament talking in political jargon, but you don’t need to be eloquent and hyper-intelligent to talk about this stuff.” Watch Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell become runaway bride in epic 'Space and Time' video". NME. 30 May 2018 . Retrieved 3 June 2018.Another aspect that I found notable was that so many critics described this album as being a frightful achievement steeped in potential, with the ability to achieve so much more, and then went on to rate this bit of pretentiousness with the ability to achieve with high regards. Hey, I get the need to be angry for the sake of it, pulling strings, being cathartic and perhaps brave, but this to me is all a submersion into the bittersweet obvious nihilistic (meaning: rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless) aspects of life that certainly need to be explored, yet makes having a conversation with a nihilist nearly impossible.

Albums by leading female solo artists have performed poorly in recent years: Allen’s No Shame is no longer in the UK Top 100 albums; Florence + the Machine’s High as Hope sits outside the Top 40. Allen suggested that this was due to male industry executives who felt threatened by the #MeToo movement wielding their power against women. “The music industry is rife with abuse and abuse of power, and the more power that women have the harder it is for the men to get away with the shit that they’ve been getting away with forever,” she said. Up there … from left, Joff Oddie, Ellie Rowsell, Theo Ellis and Joel Amey. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Kaye, Ben (12 June 2017). "Wolf Alice announce sophomore album, Visions of a Life, share "Yuk Foo" — listen". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 13 June 2017. Myers, Owen (11 September 2017). "Wolf Alice Get A Glamorous '50s Makeover in Their "Beautifully Unconventional" Video". The Fader . Retrieved 11 September 2017.Paine, Andre (21 September 2018). " 'We won a Mercury, this is mad!': Post-prize sales surge for Wolf Alice". Music Week . Retrieved 22 September 2018.

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