Wolf Alice have announced a pair of intimate shows to celebrate the release of their upcoming album ’The Clearing’.
The North London band announced their fourth studio album in May and it will be released on August 22 via Sony (pre-order/pre-save here). It follows on from their debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’, Mercury Prize-winning sophomore release ‘Visions Of A Life’ and 2022’s cinematic ‘Blue Weekend’.
They have so far shared the singles ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, ‘The Sofa’ and ‘White Horses’.
Now, the band have announced details of two small shows that will follow the record’s release – they will play at Circuit in Kingston on August 31 and then Camp and Furnace in Liverpool on September 1. Tickets for both shows go on sale at 11am on Tuesday (August 12) and you will be able to get yours here.
As well as these dates, Wolf Alice will be playing a major headline tour of the UK and Ireland later in the year – see the full list of dates here and buy your tickets here.
In June, the band spoke to NME at Glastonbury about how the response to their third album shaped their approach to ‘The Clearing’.
“I think very much. I think we were buoyed by the songier songs being things that people really connected to and we spent a lot more time working on those constituency, songy song parts of the songs,” Joff Oddie said. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to write a really concise song in a – I don’t wanna say pop structure, but you know what I mean. It’s quite easy to throw a five-minute jam together, but that’s so difficult, so it’s a brilliant challenge and that’s more so where we were focused with this album.”
NME reviewed ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, awarding it five stars and writing: “After three albums of building and expanding their world, and experiencing the ups and downs of the music industry, it feels like the band are ready to stake their claim as one of their generation’s most important acts. Now, Wolf Alice are undoubtedly in full bloom.”
NME also gave Wolf Alice’s Glastonbury 2025 performance five stars, writing: “The energy they pour into today’s set feels like that of a band who should be topping the Pyramid Stage next time they play Worthy Farm.”
“As the set ends with ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’ – a strong contender for one of the best, most dizzyingly accurate love songs ever written – that feeling only intensifies. That song finds Rowsell writing herself a romantic Hollywood ending; Wolf Alice’s world-beating set does the same for Glastonbury 2025.”
