My Love Is Cool is the debut studio album by the alternative rock band Wolf Alice, released on 22 June 2015 in the UK and 23 June 2015 in the US on Dirty Hit Records. This album includes the previously released singles "Bros" and "Fluffy" in re-recorded versions, and was preceded by the songs "Giant Peach" and "You're a Germ". The song "Moaning Lisa Smile", which originally appeared on the EP Creature Songs, charted within the top 10 of the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart peaking at #9, and was also included for the US release of the album. The album was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize. In 2016, a deluxe edition of the album was released, containing the Blush and Creature Songs EPs, along with the B-sides to the early "Bros" and "Fluffy" singles and some more previously released material.
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Critical reception
My Love Is Cool received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 21 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. Harriet Gibsone of The Guardian called the album "familiar but invigorating indie-rock", further stating: "while the foundations of My Love Is Cool are 90s/00s shoegaze and grunge, the London quartet defibrillate their influences with the ambition of youth. It also feels like an album that's been allowed time to gestate: despite being virtually veteran in buzzband terms, they have benefited from beefing up their sound on tour - as evidenced on the heavy romance of Your Loves Whore, the dirty degenerate chug of You're a Germ, or the cinematic Turn to Dust. The awkward introversion in the lyrics - which deal with relationship strife, creepy blokes, friendship, gender and the quest for eternal love - add a sense of emotional overload driven by late nights, blood pacts and wide-eyed wonder. It's an invigorating debut with a gaunt, gallant identity of its own."
Stephen Ackroyd of DIY praised the album, saying "My Love Is Cool isn't simply a great debut. It's not just a great album full stop. It's, in no uncertain terms, a remarkable one. The furthest from route one they could ever get, Wolf Alice aren't just sure of who they are; they own it." MusicOMH's Graeme Marsh said the album is "as good a debut as you could hope to hear, a fresh injection of pure brilliance and beauty to a genre that is creaking under the weight of mediocrity and a lack of adventurous inventiveness." AllMusic critic Heather Phares stated that "even if My Love Is Cool sacrifices some of Wolf Alice's earlier fury, the album is all the stronger for it." Neil McCormick of The Telegraph wrote, "They don't quite sound like the finished article, but there is a virtuous sense of their trying to make music in service of something profound." Pitchfork's Laura Snapes stated: "The confident diversity of My Love Is Cool indicates a band who have their own thing all figured out, who shouldn't veer from their own strange path to live up to outdated narratives that dictate what a young British band should be."
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Track listing
All tracks written by Ellie Rowsell, Joff Oddie, Theo Ellis and Joel Amey.
Charts
Personnel
- Ellie Rowsell -- Lead vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, omnichord, background vocals on "Swallowtail"
- Joff Oddie -- Guitar, synthesizer, banjo, violin, background vocals, programming
- Theo Ellis -- Bass guitar, synthesizer, background vocals
- Joel Amey -- Drums, organ, percussion, synthesizer, background vocals, lead vocals on "Swallowtail"
References
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