Left Field

WOLF ALICE Blue Weekend [Dirty Hit] ‘Great guitar hopes’ does a reductive disservice to the brilliance of Wolf Alice. They’ve bagged two No.2 albums and the 2018 Mercury Prize (for 2017’s Visions Of A Life) by being the evolutionary leap into an era where alt.rock, psychedelia, dream pop, grunge, punk and intergalactic next-gen shoegaze intermingle on a binary-defying sonic spectrum. Their third and finest album ventures further still, folding Kate Bush’s operatic mistiness, minimalist art-pop and the odd R&B intonation into a flavoursome stew. Befitting an album about escapism (The Beach dreams wistfully of an exotic postlockdown bender; lustrous, Delicious Things is an ode to the Hollywood high life) and the turbulent tides of love, an oceanic crescendo is never far away. More vulnerable moments (Feeling Myself, Safe From Heartbreak) are appropriately…

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