Wolf Alice
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Listening to the tidal wave in \\u201cGiant Peach,\\u201d the riotous \\u201cMoaning Lisa Smile,\\u201d or the punked-up \\u201cPlay the Greatest Hits,\\u201d it\\u2019s hard to imagine Wolf Alice as an acoustic duo. Then talk to Joff Oddie about his integral use of effects\\u2014\\u201cThese pedals can do such crazy things; to not do crazy things with things that can do crazy things seems odd\\u201d\\u2014and the band\\u2019s origin story becomes even more improbable. But it\\u2019s true: Wolf Alice started with guitarist/singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Oddie playing acoustic-folk music during open-mic nights in North London pubs.
After self-releasing an EP, they expanded and electrified their sound with the help of Theo Ellis (bass/synths) and Joel Amey (drums/synths). Now sure, plenty of the band\\u2019s repertoire from their four official releases stays in the quieter, softer settings\\u2014creating maximum drama\\u2014but Joff and the gang give some animation to nearly every note played. (To give further cred to the group\\u2019s juxtaposition of floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, in a 2015 PG interview Oddie cited John Fahey and Sonic Youth as two of his biggest influences.)
\\u201cOn Blue Weekend, we leaned into our past quite a bit, where we layered up sounds with acoustic instruments. We used loads of 12-strings, banjos, resonators, and tenor guitars,\\u201d Oddie says about the band\\u2019s recent release. \\u201cWe\\u2019re even performing an acoustic fingerstyle number\\u2014\\u2018Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love)\\u2019\\u2014each night, so it\\u2019s nice to get back there.\\u201d
Before Wolf Alice\\u2019s sold-out show at Nashville\\u2019s Cannery Ballroom, guitarist Oddie shared an hour with PG\\u2019s Chris Kies. The resulting conversation covered the cathartic process of building his first guitar during lockdown (a Jaguar-Jazzmaster hybrid) and why he switched to a pair of Fenders that are \\u201ca big sheet of paper that you can paint on.\\u201d Plus, he illustrates how every moment in a Wolf Alice set has a pedal, and those moments are unique and not repeated.
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