04/06/2026
It’s 5 years of Wolf Alice’s ‘Blue Weekend’ today! The long-awaited follow-up to 2017's ‘Visions of a Life’, Wolf Alice's third album more than lived up to expectations. �After 187 shows on the Visions of a Life tour, the band reset and revived their dynamic in an Airbnb in Somerset, with Rowsell laying down some of her most personal storytelling, paired by a newfound sharpness and vulnerability. Standout tracks like "Smile" and “Lipstick on the Glass” propelled ‘Blue Weekend’ to number one in the UK charts and was the biggest-selling album of ‘21 in UK record shops.
2021 was also chock-full of fantastic records, including Sam Fender's UK number one ‘Seventeen Going Under’ which scored him the Ivor Novello prize, as well as game-changing debuts from Inhaler and Geese, a brief glimpse into the world of these future headliners, making 2021 one of the strongest years for guitar music in recent memory.��What’s your favourite album from 2021?