Wolf Alice / The Clearing LP / Out Now

THE CLEARING LP // OUT NOW

JUST TWO GIRLS // FOCUS TRACK

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Seminal British band WOLF ALICE have released their eagerly anticipated fourth album The Clearing alongside the focus track Just Two Girls via Sony Music. Watch the lyric video below

Speaking about the new track, singer Ellie Rowsell says:

“I was inspired by going for dinner with my friends – a couple of friends at different times, just one-on-one. I noticed how much I was saying, ‘Oh my God, yeah you’re so right!’ and I thought it was so nice to see how validating these conversations with my girlfriends are, how much I’m learning in these chats. I think I’ve been trying to figure out a lot of things, like getting older. I feel it’s really been a strange time of thinking about appearance. And these are things you hash out with your girlfriends and suddenly you don’t feel so shit about them. I just felt like there deserved to be a song about that.”

Following a string of potent singles – Bloom Baby Bloom, The Sofa and most recently White Horses – each unveiling a distinct sonic direction, The Clearing arrives as a moment of crystalisation for one of the UK’s most inventive and emotionally charged bands. Written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin, the album is a widescreen collection of songs that are bold in ambition, full of heart, and the band’s most refined work yet. It’s a classic pop / rock album that nods to the 70s while remaining rooted firmly in the present. If Fleetwood Mac wrote an album today in North London, you’d get somewhere close to this run of effortlessly grand tracks, each as distinct as the last.

The band celebrated the eve of the album release with a history-defining release show at the Dublin Castle in Camden, hallowed ground for a band whose impact on their native North London is impossible to measure. The celebration extended next door with a special pop-up event where fans got an early listen to the album and access to exclusive merchandise. Their performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live also aired the same evening, where the band played an incredible performance of the first single from the album Bloom Baby Bloom.

At its core, The Clearing is a record about arrival – not at a destination, but at a sense of peace with the journey. Whether that’s the self-interrogation of Thorns, the yearning nostalgia of Leaning Against The

Wall or the raw intimacy of Play It Out, each track maps a point in the band’s evolution. A landmark album in both concept and execution, The Clearing is less a reinvention than a recognition of the band’s full capabilities: fierce yet fragile, playful yet profound. Front and centre is Rowsell’s ever-evolving poetic storytelling alongside an innate desire for Ellie, Joff, Theo and Joel to have fun, secure in their ambition and ability at this unique moment in time. From the rolling euphoria of Bread Butter Tea Sugar to the assuring acceptance of The Sofa, the record captures a band unafraid to push themselves further than ever before. This is Wolf Alice fully in command – no longer searching but stepping confidently into a new chapter.

The album’s title serves as both a quiet mission statement and emotional centrepiece. It finds the four piece meditating on what remains when the uncertainty, insecurities and self-deprecation of your 20s falls away. The sentiment “Know who I am, that’s important to me / Do what I can to see the wood from the trees” from White Horses is less a declaration of triumph than of peaceful acceptance. The Clearing is Wolf Alice’s most accomplished and affecting work to date.

Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding up a mirror to their own emerging generation. In 2025, their fourth album The Clearing finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated Moaning Lisa Smile, both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, the 2018 follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Blue Weekend and its resultant UK number 1 and Brit Award for Best Group.

In the process, lead singer Ellie Rowsell has grown into a storytelling icon, weaving cautionary tales of how your twenties will hurt you, but in valuable ways. Wolf Alice have toured the world multiple times headlining sold out tours, gracing numerous festival stages and supporting an array of key artists including pop icon Harry Styles. Following a packed summer of historical festival slots at Primavera Sound, the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend and Glastonbury, the band will celebrate The Clearing with a sold out tour across North America, Europe, the UK and Ireland this autumn that sees the band headlining some of the biggest stages of their career to date.

UK AND IRELAND DATES

NOVEMBER

Fri 28 MANCHESTER AO Arena

Sat 29 BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena

DECEMBER

Mon 01 CARDIFF Utilita Arena

Tue 02 LONDON O2 Arena

Wed 03 LONDON O2 Arena

Fri 05 LEEDS First Direct Arena

Sun 07 GLASGOW OVO Hydro Arena

Mon 08 NOTTINGHAM Motorpoint Arena

Wed 10 DUBLIN 3 Arena