Wolf Alice are among Mercury Prize 2025 nominees with their new album, ‘The Clearing’. That means they have been nominated for the prestigious award with all their albums. Van 4 of 4, and also won it with the second, ‘Visions of a Life’.
Jokes apart on what they are going to do the year that do not name them, the truth is that all mentions have been deserved, and that of ‘The Clearing’ too. The album is good enough for ‘Just Two Girls’ not been single until several months after the campaign started. The one we can consider the 4th single of ‘The Clearing’ is our song of the day today.
Why this cut has not been promoted before, it can be due to the fact that it is not the cut that best represents the album: it is the most pop, the least folkie, and a song that Ellie considers very funny. This is how he explained it to us in an interview conducted a few months ago, when we told him that he even remembered Saint Etienne: «It is a song that depends a lot on the lyrics and the melody. No demo was made, it was simply to follow the story and the lyrics, and there it was. He reached the end of the album. We wanted something animated and at least it was lyrically, I taught her waiting for someone to take her somewhere and came out very fast. It is a very funny song ».
In an album that talks about the stage and artisticity, ‘Just Two Girls’ talks about being “only two girls in the bar”, “two girls in the park” or “a star on stage.” Stanzas remove iron to absurd concerns how to envy others or worry about things that are not important. “When did you start obsessing so much with things that you have and things that do not?”
Roswell explained that he was inspired by conversations with friends, in everything he has learned from them about things like becoming greater. The video that has just released has Lucy Boynton (‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘The Politician’) and has been directed by Colin Solal Cardo. In it we see just how, from a conversation of “two girls” at a dinner, fun arises, dance, leaving behind the things that make us unhappy. And two women dancing, in an album openly inspired by the 70s, they can only take us to a so far unlikely to talk about Wolf Alice: Baccara.
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