Blue Weekend is the highly anticipated third album from revered British band, Wolf Alice and the follow-up to 2017's Mercury Prize-winning Visions of a Life. Personal storytelling is at the core of Blue Weekend, an album that sees Wolf Alice embrace a newfound boldness and vulnerability in equal measure.
For Blue Weekend, the band decamped to an Airbnb in Somerset, and it was there that they reconfigured who they were together, and set to work on some fledgling demos in a converted church. These demos evolved into Blue Weekend, a record produced by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Björk, Brian Eno, Florence + The Machine) who has aided the band in refining their sound to an even sharper point. Blue Weekend is the next chapter for Wolf Alice, and it's the work of a band who raise the bar with every release.
Speaking on lead single "The Last Man On Earth," Ellie Rowsell says, "It's about the arrogance of humans. 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?'"
The Beach
Delicious Things
Lipstick On The Glass
Smile
Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love)
How Can I Make It OK
Play The Greatest Hits
Feeling Myself
The Last Man On Earth
No Hard Feelings
The Beach II