Wolf Alice have confirmed details of their fourth album – the band’s first at their new global label home, Sony Music.

The Clearing is set for release on August 29. Lead single Bloom Baby Bloom (Columbia) is out now and debuted on BBC Radio 1 as the station’s ‘Hottest Record’.

The new album from Wolf Alice was written in Seven Sisters, London and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin.

In the announcement, The Clearing is billed as a “supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion; The Clearing is a truly timeless record.”

Bloom Baby Bloom marks the beginning of a new era for Wolf Alice.

“I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,” said singer Ellie Rowsell. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the 'girl singer in band' trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”

The video for Bloom Baby Bloom is a collaboration with director Colin Solal Cardo, best known for working with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens and Phoenix. It features a performance from Rowsell in the middle of a host of dancers choreographed by Emmy-winning choreographer Ryan Heffington (Euphoria, Sia). 

Wolf Alice have confirmed an appearance at Glastonbury next month.

The Clearing is the follow-up to 2021’s Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit), the BRIT-winning band’s first No.1 album. It has sales to date of 149,532 according to the Official Charts Company.

Wolf Alice won the Mercury Prize with their second album, Visions Of A Life, in 2018.

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