I Wolf Alice presentano il nuovo album "The clearing"

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La band racconta il suo quarto lavoro di studio

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00:00Quando approcci il writing di questo album,

00:09just wanted,

00:11I feel like we really put an emphasis on enjoying ourselves

00:16and even though we put a lot of effort into it

00:20and really made our decisions like carefully and everything,

00:27we still, I feel like, wanted to be,

00:30I'm not saying we achieved it,

00:32but wanted to be a bit more laid back in the approach

00:35and enjoy ourselves.

00:38I feel like the clearing wants to evoke a sense of peace

00:43and quiet self-reflection in a way that is not depressing

00:49or anxious making.

00:51And so, yeah, it just kind of reflects our process really.

00:58And even though these songs,

00:59like they're not all like super,

01:01they're not all really happy or like some of them are like a bit introspective

01:06and maybe even a little bit brooding,

01:09but they're still just trying to be a bit more like,

01:15I don't know, peaceful or something.

01:17People started writing songs, I think probably when Blue Weekend finished really.

01:21And so you kind of, you have a period of time where you'll promote,

01:25we were promoting Blue Weekend after that came out

01:26and we were all, you know, out on tour and people were doing writing by themselves.

01:29And then we came home and the date was in November or November, 2022 at the,

01:38someone just told me the name of the venue.

01:39It was the last show we played on Blue Weekend.

01:43So then we, I think we took like a couple months off or something like that, kind of.

01:50And then we got together in a place,

01:52a little studio in Seven Sisters in North London.

01:55And we started kind of playing together,

01:59just doing it really kind of primitively, really, to begin with,

02:02and just kind of playing songs on acoustic guitars

02:04and working on structures and melodies and the kind of,

02:11the building block kind of things.

02:14And then we went and recorded it.

02:16I mean, you know, we went off to LA with Greg Kirsten.

02:19We had a wonderful time.

02:20He's a great guy.

02:21His studio is amazing and he's very talented.

02:25But you saying, how did we fill four years?

02:26I'm going, how did we, how did that take four years?

02:29But it did.

02:30I always feel like after an album, it's like,

02:34you're, you just like, something happens where you're like,

02:37okay, right, I'm open to influence now.

02:41And I'm open to inspiration.

02:42And I feel like you've got to be kind to yourself with that.

02:46Because sometimes you're like,

02:47shit, I need to be writing a song and I need to,

02:49but actually you're, you are doing work.

02:52It's just like, you're just taking stuff in.

02:54And so I just always writing stuff down in my notes.

02:57I'm always like, yeah, just trying to watch a lot of films,

03:02listen to a lot of music, go out a lot.

03:06And yeah, just like be open to inspiration.

03:09And then by the time you sit down at your piano

03:13or sit down at your computer or meet up with your music friends or whatever,

03:18like you, you've got stuff to work with,

03:23like your, like quotes that you've written down on your notes app,

03:27or like playlist of tunes that you're like,

03:30I like this, I want to do something like this.

03:32And so, yeah, it just comes from that moment, that collection of inspo.

03:40If when you listen to the record, it's like, you can see,

03:43you can hear the band playing in front of you.

03:46And I think we've achieved that as well as having fun in the studio,

03:50and not completely sticking, you know, leaning against the wall,

03:53you know, is quite, is wonderfully cinematic in its own way.

03:56Yet we still have the other dynamics on the record.

04:00So I think we aim to achieve that.

04:01And I'd like to think we've done so.

04:03In terms of being a band today and looking back on the period of time where pop music

04:11was done by people in bands and the really popular music, the preeminent kind of stuff

04:17was done, yeah, in bands.

04:19So it's, you know, really interesting to look back a little bit at that period of time and go,

04:23you know, you know, what were people up to?

04:27So, yeah, in a sense, you know, some of the music of that period was, you know, informed this record.

04:34I wouldn't say solely, but, you know, it's probably a fair bit of influence from that period of time,

04:3960s, 70s or even 80s and, you know.

04:42It feels, I keep saying it, it sounds, maybe sounds insincere, but it is true.

04:47I feel this feels exciting and like a bit of a first time round again,

04:50for some reason on this album.

04:52I think we've all got a real, we put the last album out in COVID,

04:56which I think was actually probably quite a weird experience now that I'm reflecting on it.

05:00I don't know.

05:00I think we feel kind of similar to when we did when My Love Is Cool came out.

05:05It was just like kind of feeling like we don't know what's to come

05:08when people hear this record, which is really exciting.

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