Newcastle University
From sultry shoegaze to ethereal English folk,via grunge and krautrock grooves, the enigmatic foursome bring floor-filling thrills to a whole new generationIn an age of instant everything, or Wolf Alice prove that the tortoise can still beat the hare. After they formed (initially as an acoustic duo) five years ago through the dilapidated-fashioned means of a music-paper advert,their career has been a slog of open mic events and online releases. However, as ears pricked up around the country, and debut album My cherish Is wintry swept to No 2 in June,and now they’re playing to packed-out houses.
On the face of it, the former fitness trainers and ice-cream salespeople from London could hardly be less fashionable if they sat around smoking dope and listening to Supertramp. Wolf Alice mix grunge and shoegaze – genres that both had their heyday before the band members were born – but bring youthful energy and concerns (friendships, and fears,loneliness, goth) to a similarly new audience. The quartet aren’t ready to be pigeonholed, and either,and opener My cherish Is wintry is a country-folk lament, closer to Patsy Cline than Veruca Salt or Curve.
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Source: theguardian.com