{"id":15384,"date":"2024-09-18T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=15384"},"modified":"2024-09-16T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:31:51","slug":"morning-songwolf-alice-sadboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2024\/09\/18\/morning-songwolf-alice-sadboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song#Wolf Alice #Sadboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gloriously unplayable in its unedited form on FCC-leashed terrestrial radio, Wolf Alice<\/strong>\u2019s obscenity-laced single \u201cYuk Foo\u201d \u2014 two minutes of sheer sonic battery acid \u2014was the earliest taste of Visions of a Life<\/em>, the London band\u2019s second album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Blur\u2019s grungy riposte, \u201cSong Two,\u201d twenty years earlier, “Yuk Foo” is a thunderbolt: explosively satisfying and scathing. Wolf Alice’s frontwoman Ellie Rowsell rages through its all-too-brief storm with a sly dose of mordant humor too. But there\u2019s always an unconventional, thoughtful layer to Wolf Alice’s songwriting. Even when Rowsell is pitched to furious gales and at her most tempestuous howl \u2014 as she is here \u2014 there\u2019s a wistful slant to her vituperation, a deeper frustration with human behaviour and her vulnerable response to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The raw feelings stirred by \u201cYuk Foo\u201d fits the messy emotional beauty of the album \u2014 Visions of a Life<\/em> is a frank, dreamy and visionary follow-up to the group\u2019s critically-praised, Mercury Prize-nominated debut, 2015\u2019s My Love is Cool<\/em>. In fact, Visions of a Life<\/em> is a far stronger album, one that cements the exciting promise of this young band: singer and guitarist Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie, bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it\u2019s easy to seize on elements of grunge\u2019s soft-to-heavy seesaw across the panoply of their sophomore album\u2019s 12 tracks \u2014 and a preoccupation with mortality too \u2014 Wolf Alice is anything but formulaic. Visions of a Life<\/em> is boldly tangential and surprising. The album\u2019s second single, \u201cDon\u2019t Delete the Kisses,\u201d is a hazy, half-spoken synthpop swirl of romantic longing and internal doubt, spurred on by a motorik beat (and distantly beholden to Father John Misty<\/a>). \u201cPlanet Hunter\u201d soars and swoons, gently brushed with clouds of mellotron and plangent guitar before it breaks open, like blinding sunlight, into a harder, grittier vista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSadboy\u201d is a four-minute epiphany that unfurls in multiple directions: a galloping rhythm section gives way to Rowsell’s double-tracked, sweetly delivered taunt: \u201cWhat hurt you sad boy? You act like you\u2019re already dead. But you think too much. Probably drink too much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what begins as a straight-ahead guitar track takes an abrupt swing into an unexpected \u201cSadboy\u201d stratosphere: anguished sotto voce<\/em> recriminations, tattered screams elevated to gospel heights, and the reverberated tailwind of guitar. It\u2019s a stunning song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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