She writes with the freedom of a woman who is comfortable living in the ebbs and flows of her emotions. On “Feeling Myself”, Rowsell throws out barbed reads of an ex – “he’s had so many lovers / don’t mean he’s been pleasing anyone” – concluding that she could get better pleasure, and self-love, from herself. Now heading into their thirties, the anxious confusion that previously dominated their work has given way to a mature acceptance of the world. Angry, loud, noisy things feel appropriate, but that’s not appropriate for all aspects of the spectrum of human emotions.”

“Different types of music better represent different kinds of emotional content. “Having one sound and writing 11 variations of the same song feels lazy,” says Oddie. Wolf Alice have often been accused of relying too heavily on their influences rather than having a definitive sound, but here they’ve leaned into the genre-hopping. Blue Weekend is a collage of familiar themes – failed relationships, honest self-reflection, anxiety – but even more widescreen, veering from guttural punk riffs to cinematic strings. Indeed, the burden of following up two well-received albums could have broken most bands but they have not only risen to the occasion, they’ve released one that many see as the truest distillation of their sound and ethos to date. Wolf Alice are so down-to-earth, you imagine they don’t bow easily to pressure. Ben Platt: ‘Evan Hansen is a painful role to live in all the time’.50 Cent: ‘Too rich? There’s no such thing’.‘Thom Yorke made a doomerwave version of his own f***ing song!’.“I didn’t mind if people came,” Rowsell adds, “it was just so I could tell people I played.”

It’s hardly the main stage at Glastonbury. She jokes that her only ambition was to play the cult east London pub The Old Blue Last, which was once owned by Vice magazine and was at the centre of the noughties Shoreditch music scene where acts with names like Shitdisco regularly played and misbehaved.

“I don’t think I let myself visualise those, what it’s called, because you don’t want to disappoint yourself,” says the Ellie in question, surname Rowsell, the band’s singer. “Ellie says she just wanted enough money to buy hot lunches every day,” guitarist Joff Oddie jokes, reminiscing about the 2010s, when Wolf Alice were a folk duo starting out in London. They’re one of the biggest bands in the UK at the moment but despite reaching the heady heights of music stardom, they say they never really indulged many wild aspirations when they were young. Wolf Alice didn’t exactly dream big at the start of their careers.

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