Jordan Hemingway
Wolf Alice are back. This summer, the London band will unveil their third album Blue Weekend, a project birthed out of their time spent in a converted church in Somerset. The LP is due out in its entirety June 11 via Dirty Hit/RCA Records, and today, they're sharing the first gauzy glimmer by way of "The Last Man On Earth." Though showcasing a softer side for a band whose last lead single was quite literally called "Yuk Foo," the crescendoing waltz ranks among their most powerful tracks yet.
“It’s about the arrogance of humans," frontwoman Ellie Rowsell wrote in a press statement. "I’d just read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and I had written the line ‘Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god’ in my notes. But then I thought: ‘Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn’t a dancing lesson from god, it’s just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more?’”
Watch the video for "The Last Man On Earth" below, and pre-order Blue Weekend here.