Visions Of A Life

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But for all the episodic glamor of all these songs, Wolf Alice's true discography centerpiece is Don't Delete the Kisses, an addictive work of art that envelops you in a sentimental scenario that overwhelms with how lifelike and passionate it is. The song releases pent-up insecure thoughts of romance, pained and hoarse and hesitant and extremely real. The whole album means the world to me, but Don't Delete the Kisses in particular manages to melt my heart and bring tears to my eyes every time I listen to it. 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?” Did you get to meet Corbyn during the campaign? “No, we did go to a few events he was at, but we never got to meet him,” she replies. “It seemed like anywhere he went he was absolutely mobbed and bombarded. He’s like the biggest indie band in the world.” Watch Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell become runaway bride in epic 'Space and Time' video". NME. 30 May 2018 . Retrieved 3 June 2018.

Morgan Britton, Luke (5 July 2017). "Wolf Alice release new single 'Don't Delete The Kisses' and share 'Visions Of A Life' album artwork". NME . Retrieved 6 July 2017. Ever since they put the Bands 4 Refugees project together in late 2016, Wolf Alice’s interest and involvement in politics has grown. While their role in the general election campaign was lower-key than Corbyn’s meme-wielding phalanx of grime MCs, the band actively and enthusiastically stumped for him and Rowsell also recorded a video for the Labour Party urging young people to register to vote. Nor were they the only ones to get involved: empowered by the reach of social media and the starkness of the choice on offer (“There’s no grey areas any more; it’s literally a choice between good and evil,” declares Ellis) more bands of Wolf Alice’s generation seem to be jumping into the political arena. 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…”

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.”

Myers, Owen (11 September 2017). "Wolf Alice Get A Glamorous '50s Makeover in Their "Beautifully Unconventional" Video". The Fader . Retrieved 11 September 2017. Daly, Rhian (25 May 2017). "Wolf Alice are sending mysterious postcards to fans". NME . Retrieved 13 June 2017. Visions of a Life (liner notes). Wolf Alice. Dirty Hit. 2017. DH00213. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) 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. The full list of this year’s nominees was: Lily Allen, No Shame; Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino; Everything Everything, A Fever Dream; Everything Is Recorded, Everything Is Recorded; Florence + the Machine, High as Hope; Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Who Built the Moon?; King Krule, The Ooz; Novelist, Novelist Guy; Nadine Shah, Holiday Destination; Jorja Smith, Lost and Found; Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile; and Wolf Alice, Visions of a Life.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. A jar of perfect memories with a light to keep them warm" It's been over two years since I first heard Visions of a Life, and it remains one of the most touching and realistic albums I know. Every single song displays unbelievably delicate emotion, as if they are really just heartfelt diary entries taking musical form in a spiritual paradise realm. ARIA Chart Watch #441". auspOp. 7 October 2017. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2017. a b Spencer, Bella (25 September 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life album review". The Skinny . Retrieved 26 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.

Top 20 Independent – Week Ending 6 Oct 2017". Irish Recorded Music Association. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017 . Retrieved 6 October 2017. 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. Nelson, Geoff (22 September 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 26 September 2017.Albums by leading female solo artists have performed poorly in recent years: Allen’s No Shame is no longer in the UK Top 100 albums; Florence + the Machine’s High as Hope sits outside the Top 40. Allen suggested that this was due to male industry executives who felt threatened by the #MeToo movement wielding their power against women. “The music industry is rife with abuse and abuse of power, and the more power that women have the harder it is for the men to get away with the shit that they’ve been getting away with forever,” she said. Jones, Craig (5 October 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life". musicOMH . Retrieved 6 October 2017. Richards, Will (28 September 2017). "Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life". DIY . Retrieved 28 September 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. Rowsell was a judge for the prize in 2016. In a press conference following their win, she said that “you get given almost 300 albums to listen to ... and I feel privileged to have that insight, because I know the dedication and intensity it takes to come to that decision.” Guitarist Joff Oddie said winning the prize was “the closest thing to an actual dream-like state – it sounds like such a cliche but that’s what it felt like for me.”