My Love Is Cool

by Wolf Alice

My Love Is Cool cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 June 2015
  • Label: Dirty Hit
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 51:34
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 14 ratings

Artists on this release: Joff Oddie, Theo Ellis, Joel Amey, Ellie Rowsell

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Wolf Alice's debut, 'My Love Is Cool', presents a dynamic and stylistically diverse fusion of '90s grunge, shoegaze, and dream-pop. [1, 8, 9] The album, shaped by producer Mike Crossey, shifts between the raw, heavy guitar riffs of tracks like "Giant Peach" and the cinematic, synth-layered atmospheres of songs such as "Silk" and "Turn to Dust". [1, 2, 3] Ellie Rowsell's songwriting explores themes of friendship, love, and relationship strife with an introverted emotional intensity, establishing the band with a critically acclaimed and ambitious identity that earned a Mercury Prize nomination. [1, 8]

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, dreamy, reverb-heavy, genre-blending, dynamic

Tracklist

  1. Turn To Dust (03:07)
  2. Bros (03:44)
  3. Your Loves Whore (04:57)
  4. Moaning Lisa Smile (02:42)
  5. You're a Germ (02:53)
  6. Lisbon (03:26)
  7. Silk (04:03)
  8. Freazy (03:14)
  9. Giant Peach (04:35)
  10. Swallowtail (05:41)
  11. Soapy Water (03:42)
  12. Fluffy (02:44)
  13. The Wonderwhy (Hidden Track) (06:46)

Credits

  • Ellie Rowsell - guitars, vocals, synths, programming, piano, omnichord, hammond organ
  • Joff Oddie - guitars, backing vocals, synths, programming, banjo, violins
  • Theo Ellis - bass guitar, backing vocals, synths
  • Joel Amey - drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "swallowtail", synths, programming, guitars, hammond organ
  • Mike Crossey - production, mixing, synths, programming
  • Jonathan Gilmore - engineering
  • Robin Schmidt - mastering
  • Rachel Thomas - cover photo
  • Samuel Burgess-Johnson - design

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