Album Reviews: CMAT | Wolf Alice

Album reviews: CMAT | Wolf Alice

CMAT is a natural talent with a big voice, a social conscience and an impish sense of humour, writes Fiona Shepherd

Wolf Alice Hit an Adult-Rock Peak on ‘The Clearing’

The U.K. band Wolf Alice have been making eclectic pop-rock for a decade, specializing in textural music that swings big emotionally while moving within different sonic settings, proving what a guitar band can do to stay on its game in a post-guitar world. They’ve never put it together with the sweep and depth of their fourth album, The Clearing, steeped in classic Seventies and Eighties influences yet never feeling like they’re just firing up a…

Wolf Alice: How The Spirit Of Reinvention And The Ghosts Of Their Past Powered ‘The Clearing’

Wolf Alice have embraced the spirit of reinvention.Never a band to make the same album twice or repeat any ideas, the band’s fourth album, The Clearing, out this Friday, offers a moment of pure peace.Since their formation in 2010 – originally as an acoustic duo comprising vocalist Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie, welcoming drummer Joel Amey and bassist Theo Ellis in 2012 – the British outfit’s music has worn many expressions, from grunge-…

Wolf Alice reach full bloom on ‘70s-inspired soft rock album ‘The Clearing’

When Wolf Alice returned with their roaring new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ back in May, it was clear the North London quartet meant business. “Look at me trying to play it hard / I’m so sick and tired of trying to play it hard,” vocalist Ellie Rowsell yowls with razored ferocity, before her hysterics soften […] The post Wolf Alice reach full bloom on ‘70s-inspired soft rock album ‘The Clearing’  appeared first on The Forty-Five.