Wolf Alice have announced their fourth album, The Clearing. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Blue Weekend, and they recorded it in Los Angeles with Greg Kurstin and wrote it in North London. It’s due out on Aug. 29 via RCA, and you can see the cover art below.
Along with the announcement comes their first new music in three years, “Bloom Baby Bloom.” The accompanying video features choreography by Ryan Heffington and was directed by Colin Solal Cardo, and you can watch it below.
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About the song, vocalist Ellie Rowsell says, “I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman. I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past. Playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument, so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”
