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Kevin Ryder on KROQ

Wolf Alice Interview

Kevin Ryder on KROQ

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Comedy

4.42.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Theo Ellis and Ellie Rowsell from Wolf Alice stopped by the KROQ Studios to chat with Kevin Ryder about their new album 'The Clearing' due out August 22nd.

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0:00.0

Wolf Alice, welcome to the K-Rock Studios. How are you guys? Great. Yeah, we're great. Ellie and Theo from the band. Got a new album coming out in August. Is that, what is it, August 29th? August the 22nd. 22nd, my bad. And what does that feel like having it done, but no one has heard most of it yet? Right. talking about that the other day it's quite a weird

0:21.3

feeling kind of like the best thing to do with music is let people listen to it not describe it

0:25.8

so we've been on a kind of prolonged period of describing it to people but we're so excited for it to

0:30.8

come out we've got kind of first album syndrome again i think we've got real excitement we put the last

0:35.9

one out really in the peak of kind of COVID.

0:38.3

Yeah.

0:39.3

So like...

0:40.3

You guys sort of secluded yourself during COVID, right?

0:43.3

In a studio?

0:45.3

Yeah.

0:46.3

Yeah, the record was made in ICP in Brussels, which is like a great studio.

0:50.3

But yeah, COVID hit and that meant that all you could do was stay there, which is, well, there's worse places to be locked than...

0:57.0

Sure. But did you have to, did you work every day?

1:01.0

Yeah, we worked every day and then we were all staying at the studio as well, so...

1:07.0

There's a weird family vibe. I don't know, it was just strange, but it was actually amazing. Did you guys start to hate each other? Um, no, I actually still really like you guys. Yeah? Yeah. Well, there's the other two on here, so. You don't know what we've done with them. We have left them out on purpose? No, no.

1:27.6

You know what?

1:28.3

We're doing good.

1:28.9

I was saying the other day, we're proud.

1:30.5

Like, we've been in a band for a long time now, and it's rare that it's still the same for people, you know? Yeah, true. It's like, really, I'm into it. When you started, you put a song on SoundCloud. Is that how it all began?

1:25.5

Yeah, I think SoundCloud or a bank, I can remember,

1:28.4

put like a kind of self-made EP.

1:30.9

Oh, my... Is that how it all began? Yeah, I think SoundCloud or Ban Camp, I can't remember.

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