Wolf Alice Teases Fourth Album ‘The Clearing’ with Single “Bloom Baby Bloom”

Seminal British band Wolf Alice return with new single “Bloom Baby Bloom” alongside highly anticipated news of their fourth studio album, The Clearing, confirmed for release on August 29th via their new global label home, Sony Music. Written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion; The Clearing is a truly timeless record.

“Bloom Baby Bloom” marks the beginning of an exciting new era for Wolf Alice. A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing, it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of music in three years is a whip-smart, de-testosteroned twist on heavy rock.

Ellie Rowsell notes:

“I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman. I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”

The video for “Bloom Baby Bloom” is a collaboration with noted alt-pop director Colin Solal Cardo, famous for collaborations with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens, and Phoenix. The video deconstructs a classic rock performance by drawing on Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, featuring a brilliant performance from Ellie in the middle of a host of dancers choreographed by Emmy Award-winning choreographer Ryan Heffington (Euphoria, Sia, Kenzo + Margaret Qualley).

Wolf Alice has come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding a mirror up to their own emerging generation. Wolf Alice’s fourth album, The Clearing, finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance.

Both playful and serious, ironic and straight-talking, The Clearing is a progressive shift from a band whose exploration of love, loss, and human connection has already articulated the coming-of-age experience for a whole generation. It’s a classic pop/rock album that nods to the ’70s while remaining rooted firmly in the present. If Fleetwood Mac wrote an album today in North London, you’d get somewhere close to this run of effortlessly grand tracks, each as distinct as the last. Sonically, there is no waste, no fuss, with more authoritative melodies than the band has ever crafted before. This is a new beginning, and each of the band feels it as keenly as listeners will.

Wolf Alice “Bloom Baby Bloom” single artwork

Front and centre of The Clearing is Rowsell’s ever-evolving poetic storytelling alongside an innate desire for Ellie, Joff, Theo, and Joel to have fun, secure in their ambition and ability at this unique moment in time. The Clearing encapsulates that freeing feeling of finding a moment of peace and clarity, having survived the freewheeling frivolity of your 20s, emerging into your future, and is a portrait of Wolf Alice standing on the precipice of a new decade in both life and art.

Wolf Alice has shared details of a huge headline tour in celebration of their recently announced fourth studio album, The Clearing, due out on August 29th. The 43-date tour is their most ambitious to date and will see the quartet command some of the biggest and most coveted stages of their decade-long career, including the O2 Arena in London and two stops in Canada. Wolf Alice will perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend and Glastonbury this summer before the mammoth tour of North America, Europe, and the UK runs through from mid-September to mid-December 2025. See below for the full itinerary.

Wolf Alice ‘The Clearing’ album artwork

Tour Dates:

05/24 – Liverpool, UK – Radio 1’s Big Weekend
06/29 – Somerset, UK – Glastonbury Festival
09/10 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
09/12 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
09/15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
09/19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
09/20 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
09/22 – Montreal, QB – Beanfield Theatre
09/23 – Toronto, ON – History
09/25 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
09/26 – Chicago, IL – The Vic
09/27 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
09/30 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
10/01 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
10/03 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
10/04 – Salt Lake City, UT – Complex
10/06 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
10/07 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
10/08 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
10/10 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre
10/11 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theatre
10/13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
11/05 – Stockholm, Sweden, Annexet
11/06 – Copenhagen, Denmark, KB Hallen
11/07 – Hamburg, Germany, Georg Elser Halle
11/09 – Warsaw, Poland, Progresja
11/10 – Prague, Czech Republic, Lucerna Great Hall
11/11 – Budapest, Hungary, Barba Negra Red Stage
11/13 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz Club
11/14 – Lyon, Villeurbanne, France – Le Transbordeur
11/15 – Toulouse, France – Bikini
11/17 – Cologne, Germany – Palladium
11/19 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
11/20 – Munich, Germany – Tonhalle
11/21- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Den Atelier
11/23 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live
11/24 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
11/25 – Paris, France – Le Zénith
11/28 – Manchester, England – AO Arena
11/29 – Birmingham, England – Utilita Arena
12/01 – Cardiff, Wales – Utilita Arena
12/03 – London, England – The O2
12/05 – Leeds, England – First Direct Arena
12/07 – Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro
12/10 – Dublin, Republic of Ireland – 3Arena

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