Wolf Alice: 'A good album is one of the highest forms of art'
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BBC Wolf Alice at the BBC in August 2025 (left-right): Joff Oddie, Theo Ellis, Joel Amey and Ellie Rowsell
Wolf Alice are in a class of their own when it comes to the Mercury Prize. Last month, they received their fourth consecutive nomination for the coveted music award thanks to their new album, The Clearing. That's something no-one else has ever achieved. Not Arctic Monkeys, not Radiohead, not Pulp. What's more, they've done it with their first four albums. "For some reason, it makes me feel really anxious," admits singer Ellie Rowsell, speaking to the BBC from Nashville, where the band are in final rehearsals for their world tour. She's speaking from experience. When Wolf Alice won the Mercury Prize for their second album, Visions of a Life, in 2018, Ellie struggled to gain her composure at the podium. "I'm so nervous," she exclaimed, her hands shaking, before bandmate Theo Ellis stepped in to finish the speech. To fans, Rowsell's jitters might have seemed strange. On stage, the singer is normally a fireball of intensity, screaming punky anthems like Yuk Foo and command
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