THE BAND: Upon arriving on the scene with their debut EP in late 2013, the hype and expectation surrounding North London’s Wolf Alice quickly snowballed to a level which saw the band officially crowned as the UK’s most blogged about artist for that year. Still in their early 20’s, the versatility of the quartets canon has had the critics scratching their heads and the band pigeonholed as everything from indie pop to grunge.
THE SOUND: Incorporating elements of post punk, grunge and even krautrock over a sprawling 4 minutes, ‘Giant Peach’ is a petri dish of the band’s varied influences. Just when you think the blitzkrieg of screeching guitars, thrashy drums and howling vocals can’t ride any harder, the track lulls momentarily in the middle 8 before snapping back for one climatic white-knuckle aural assault.
THE LOWDOWN: ‘Giant Peach’ is the first single to be taken from My Love Is Cool, the long-anticipated debut album which is released 22nd June 2015 via Dirty Hit Records. They embark on a huge UK tour throughout March/April and hit up Glasgow’s Oran Mor on the 23rd March.
March
March 23rd 2015- Oran Mor, Glasgow
March 24th 2015- Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Martch 26th 2015- Ritz, Manchester
March 27th 2015- Leadmill, Sheffield
March 28th 2015- Riverside, Newcastle
March 31st 2015- Institute Library, Birmingham
April
April 1st 2015- Globe, Cardiff
April 2nd 2015- Trinity, Bristol
April 3rd 2015- O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
April 4th 2015- O2 Academy, Oxford
April 7th 2015- The Bowery District, Reading
April 8th 2015- Old Firestation, Bournemouth
April 9th 2015- Concorde 2, Brighton
April 10th 2015- Junction, Cambridge
