The Daily Spin, November 12
Wolf Alice | My Love Is Cool
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite songs from each album right here.
Album: My Love is Cool (2015)
Artist: Wolf Alice
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Somewhere between Paramore, Foals, and Royal Blood, Britain’s Wolf Alice debuted on the backs of four EPs and a particularly fantastic live show with this near-hour long EP. Briefly seen as the future of British indie rock, it feels like (to my purvey) that never came to fruition - why?
If you ask me, some of the answers lie in this album.
There’s something there, under the strong rock, heavy guitars shredding while Ellie Rowsell’s vocals range from raging to hypnotic - but it’s that same fluidity that becomes the album’s greatest undoing, with Rowsell’s vocals a nothingburger after a near-total refusal to commit to any sort of cohesive identity.
The music itself is good - there’s nothing actively bad about it - but so many of these songs that cover tough topics are alternately lost in the mixing or in the nothingness of the vocals, and combined, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
Rating: 7.5/10
Best Tracks: Giant Peach
Worst Tracks: Silk; Your Loves Whore