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MARVIN x Wolf Alice: The British Four-piece Return with their Sharpest Songwriting Yet

It’s a balmy mid-week evening in June and Wolf Alice are cramped into the back of a taxi, zooming through the streets of Milan in a race to make it to their radio interview on time. The previous evening, the British band played a very intimate, very special, and very sweaty show at Milan’s 200-cap Apollo Club, the third stop on a run of warm-up shows to get them “back into” playing live again. With an enormous main stage slot at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound a few days prior and a looming slot on Glastonbury’s Other Stage in a couple of weeks, you’d think that Wolf Alice could do it all with their eyes closed. But with four years since 2021’s Blue Weekend and an impressive roster of new songs under their belt, even pros need a little warming up. 

A lot has changed since Blue Weekend’s release. The band have split from their previous label Dirty Hit, entered their 30s, and written and recorded their fourth record The Clearing, due this August and the band’s first on a major label. “I do feel quite different,” admits the band’s frontwoman Ellie Rowsell. “Having done this for a while — well, not that long — you’re just afforded time, and the privilege of learning from your past experiences and mistakes.”

Read the full feature in the MARVIN British Invasion Issue. Click HERE to purchase.