Visions Of A Life

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a b Monroe, Jazz (2 October 2017). "Wolf Alice: Visions of a Life". Pitchfork . Retrieved 2 October 2017. Wolf Alice are the first female-fronted act to win the award since 2011, when PJ Harvey won for a second time with her eighth album, Let England Shake.

Space & Time / Formiddable Cool (LP liner notes). Wolf Alice. Dirty Hit. 2018. DH00317. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) That song, she explains, “is about how people have deeper thoughts and more tears to shed on long-haul flights – apparently it’s to do with being neither here nor there and your life being totally in the hands of someone else. So every time I’d go on a long flight and watch a romcom with a glass of wine, I’d find myself having one of these mini meltdowns. It’s quite a dark song, but it must’ve been quite funny for anyone who actually saw me sobbing at Miss Congeniality…” Wolf Alice unveil 'Heavenward' from forthcoming album, 'Visions of a Life' ". DIY. 18 September 2017 . Retrieved 18 September 2017. Paine, Andre (21 September 2018). " 'We won a Mercury, this is mad!': Post-prize sales surge for Wolf Alice". Music Week . Retrieved 22 September 2018.Beardsworth, Luke (26 September 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017 . Retrieved 27 September 2017. Another aspect that I found notable was that so many critics described this album as being a frightful achievement steeped in potential, with the ability to achieve so much more, and then went on to rate this bit of pretentiousness with the ability to achieve with high regards. Hey, I get the need to be angry for the sake of it, pulling strings, being cathartic and perhaps brave, but this to me is all a submersion into the bittersweet obvious nihilistic (meaning: rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless) aspects of life that certainly need to be explored, yet makes having a conversation with a nihilist nearly impossible.

Here on Visions Of A Life I was faced with both of these prospects rolled into one, where the album comes off as if it were actually a play regarding someone’s real or imagined life, with that death I mentioned, hanging over the entire outing as some ominous omnipresent cloud of which no one ever formally speaks, being the vision of the protagonist regarding her imaginary and hypothetical death, while the deaths of those around her are accusatory and literal. a b c Daly, Rhian (12 June 2017). "Wolf Alice announce new single 'Yuk Foo', second album and UK and world tour". NME . Retrieved 13 June 2017. Formidable Cool (Edit) – Single by Wolf Alice". iTunes Store. United Kingdom. 16 February 2018 . Retrieved 23 March 2018. Blue Weekend makes ample use of the big Wolf Alice jukebox. When the negative space is flooded with reverb, Wolf Alice flaunt the glitziest production values ever heard on a shoegaze album; turn the reverb down and they’re a more guitar-centered version of big-budget bedroom-pop. “Safe From Heartbreak (if i never fall in love)” is Wolf Alice’s entry into indie-adjacent, twang-free country-pop; strip away the floodlit harmonies that make Rowsell sound like a one-woman Staves and the 12-string overdubs and it’s an Elliott Smith song. the Raven, Matt (28 September 2017). "Wolf Alice: Visions of a Life Review". Under the Radar . Retrieved 28 September 2017.Jones, Alan (6 October 2017). "Official Charts Analysis: Shania Twain takes No. 1 in close battle with Wolf Alice". Music Week . Retrieved 6 October 2017. I read somewhere, and I paraphrase, ”Visions of a Life is a phenomenal achievement. It has captured on record the thrill, angst, sadness and uncertainty of being in your twenties and not really knowing what’s going to happen or should happen.” And while Wolf Alice may not care what I think, if they’re rejecting everything and open to nothing but the pain, all I can ask is, ”What’s the point?” Don’t sit there afraid of the future, go out and open your own doors.” Which is pretty much what the band has done, they’ve found a means of wallowing in their own misery and making some money at the same time. Which would seem to invalidate all aspects of nihilism in favor of capitalism. Copsey, Rob (6 October 2017). "Shania Twain wins fiercely fought battle against Wolf Alice to claim her first Number 1 in 18 years on the Official Albums Chart". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 6 October 2017. Nadine Shah was the bookmakers’ favourite to win for her third album, Holiday Destination, leading the jazz outfit Sons of Kemet and south London guitarist King Krule. Before the ceremony, Shah criticised what she perceived as the prize’s creeping similarity to the more mainstream Brit awards. “Now the Mercury is actually run by the same company, the BPI [British Phonographic Industry], I think it needs to find its feet again. It’s controversial of me to say so, but I do criticise it for that. It needs to establish once again, what is it that they’re trying to do. Why is Noel Gallagher being nominated? Why are there only two debut albums?” It was nuts, like the second coming or something,” confirms Ellis. “There was one event we went to in Dalston where he was there to galvanise musicians and artists who were campaigning for Labour, and every grime MC you’ve ever heard of had him surrounded, trying to get a photo with him. It was amazing for me to see a politician in that light. You never saw people clambering over each other to get a selfie with Gordon Brown. He really has galvanised a generation.”