My Love Is Cool
by Wolf Alice
- 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
- Turn To Dust (03:07)
- Bros (03:44)
- Your Loves Whore (04:57)
- Moaning Lisa Smile (02:42)
- You're a Germ (02:53)
- Lisbon (03:26)
- Silk (04:03)
- Freazy (03:14)
- Giant Peach (04:35)
- Swallowtail (05:41)
- Soapy Water (03:42)
- Fluffy (02:44)
- 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