#26
Wolf Alice | Visions of a Life
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According to Justin Chadwick: “Produced by the revered musician-producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen—he of the golden resume that includes working with Tori Amos, Beck, Nine Inch Nails, M83, and The Raveonettes, among many others—Wolf Alice’s sophomore set Visions of a Life is a noticeably bolder, brasher affair, but with their signature disregard for stylistic conformity fully intact. A marvelous mélange of styles, sounds and inspirations that seem incongruous in theory, Visions proves an even more rewarding effort than its precursor, largely due to the maturation of the group’s ensemble musicianship and Ellie Rowsell’s markedly more confessional lyricism....Wolf Alice is a young band arguably still years away from the peak of their musical powers. Fittingly then, across Visions of a Life they spend less time trying to reconcile what the future holds—typically an exercise in futility—and exert more energy in simply seizing their moment, reveling in the present, and crafting songs of the most stirring caliber.”

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