New Single Red by Mt. Wolf

The perfect soundtrack to your morning if you’ve had a heavy night, Londoners Mt. Wolf return with new single ‘Red’.

After a year off from Mt. Wolf, the band split at the end of 2013 to work on solo projects, and now its great to hear these guys return with a calming and ethereal offering. With a slow pace, that builds up over the course of the track, male vocals are echoed with a high pitched female voice. Although the instrument laden track could be flawlessly executed live, the production on the track is polished.

Splicing acoustic elements with ambient electronica to characteristically soaring effect, ‘Red’ finds Mt. Wolf reminding us exactly why they were so hotly tipped in the first place. Here, the broad ebb and flow of sparse soundscapes (which feel rather nostalgically informed by the band’s childhoods spent variously by the coasts of Guernsey, Brighton and Dorset) and meditative vocals are tempered by the distinctly modern snap and ricochet of electronic bass & beats.

Though there’s a raw emotional edge at play here which is unmistakeably Mt. Wolf, you detect the subtlest of winks in ‘Red’s’ yearning, looped refrain- ‘I’m going away for a long time’. With the long-overdue arrival of ‘Red’, and the subsequent new Mt. Wolf material it hints at, the all-pervading sense is one that for band and fans alike, the return has most certainly been worth it.

Watch this space, as if they manage to stick together again, we can safely say move over London Grammar.

Listen to Red by Mt. Wolf here…