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In huge news, Wolf Alice are pleased to confirm that their latest album The Clearing has been shortlisted for the 2025 Mercury Prize.

Having topped the UK album chart on release last month, The Clearing has received unwavering praise across the board resulting in the seminal British band’s creative output being acknowledged for the FOURTH time in the history of the much coveted prize. That’s four out of four across their 10 year career, making Wolf Alice the only band in Mercury Prize history to achieve a 100% nomination rate across a four album discography.

In reaction to the announcement, Wolf Alice shared: “It’s an honour to be shortlisted for a Mercury Prize for the fourth time. As an institution, it’s always championed leftfield and alternative music and put it in the spotlight for a mainstream audience, which is just amazing. It’s been an important part of the Wolf Alice story and something that’s always so fun to be a part of.”

Their first Mercury Prize nomination came in 2015 for their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated Moaning Lisa Smile. The follow up Visions Of A Life in 2017 cemented their rise and resulted in a Mercury Prize win, before the precious hurt of Blue Weekend in 2021 led them to being shortlisted for a third time alongside a Brit Award for Best British Group.

The Clearing is a confident selection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion that has every chance of doing the double this year.

PRAISE FOR THE CLEARING:

“Wolf Alice are the kind of band that keep on getting better with every record, and here, they raise the bar on themselves once again” NME 5*

“Another perfectly pitched stepping stone to edge them even closer to full-on legendary status” DIY 5*

“Massive, flagrant, high-heeled rock music performed with zero self-consciousness, built on the belief that spectacle and substance not only can coexist, but must” DORK 5/5

“A crisp, often emotional pop experience; it’s a break with the past while remaining utterly true to the precepts that Wolf Alice forged their success by” CLASH 8/10

“On The Clearing, the best new British band of the past decade find a comfortable new home in a new sound that’s more confident than ever” ROLLING STONE UK 4*

“The London quartet’s grandly expansive fourth album is a show of undeniable strength” THE TIMES 4*

“These tracks eschew snarling aggression for airy, gauzy harmonies, ruminations on love and some truly excellent melodic hooks” THE LONDON STANDARD 4*

“Throughout, singer Ellie Rowsell is a compelling presence, and the result is Wolf Alice’s best yet” MOJO 4*

“It’s hard to think of another band of their size who have managed to upend expectations so successfully” CLASSIC POP 4*

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