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Wolf Alice will release their new album, The Clearing, at the end of August, which will be the guitar-pop band's fourth full-length, a classic rock album inspired by the '70s but very much about the present. And with the release of the new album, the band has also announced a world tour, including Wolf Alice's first headliner show in Budapest on 11 November at Barba Negra.

    The North London quartet Wolf Alice first came to prominence in 2013 with the bruised euphoria of their debut album My Love Is Cool, which also featured the Grammy-nominated Moaning Lisa Smile. In 2018, Visions Of A Life cemented the up-and-coming band's place in the music industry with a Mercury Music Prize win, and 2022's Blue Weekend earned them the number one spot in the UK charts and a Brit Award for Best Group.

    Their fourth album, The Clearing, will be released on 29 August on Sony Music, showing that Wolf Alice are at the peak of their powers and have grown over the years into a band with a significant cultural impact. The album was written at the Seven Sisters in North London and recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-winning master producer Greg Kurstin. The new material is an imprint of what Wolf Alice's sound represents in 2025, offering the listener a highly confident collection of songs full of ambition, ideas and emotion. The Clearing is a truly timeless record.

   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 experien’70-ce 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 have toured the world multiple times, playing sold-out club gigs, big festivals and as guests of well-known bands – in Hungary they played at the Sziget Festival and they were the support act for Harry Styles. The band will definitely be at Radio 1's Big Weekend and Glastonbury in the UK this summer, and near to the end of the year they will embark on a world tour, including a stop at the Barba Negra in Budapest on 11 November.

    Tickets for the Budapest show will be available first for members of the band's official fan club on 21 May at 10am, followed by Spotify and Live Nation pre-sale at 10am on the next day, and general on sale starts on 23 May at 10am on www.livenation.hu,  www.funcode.hu and www.rock1.hu.