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The Clearing by Wolf Alice
The Clearing is an album by Wolf Alice, released in 2025. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 26 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “White Horses”, on 13 lists with a best position of #3.
The Clearing, Wolf Alice's fourth album, arrived on 22 August 2025 through RCA and Columbia, the London band's first record since leaving Dirty Hit, the label behind their first three. They wrote the songs in Seven Sisters, then flew to Los Angeles to cut them with Greg Kurstin, and the pitch was plain: a classic pop-rock record with its roots in the 1970s and its feet in the present, the band likening it to Fleetwood Mac making an album in North London today.
It suits them. Ellie Rowsell sings and plays guitar with a new looseness, Joff Oddie's guitar glints rather than grinds, and Theo Ellis and Joel Amey, aboard since 2012, keep the grooves supple, playful one minute and dead serious the next. "White Horses" and "Bloom Baby Bloom" are the songs that caught on. Like Blue Weekend before it, it went to number one in the UK, and it earned a nod for British Album at the 2026 Brit Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Clearing on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Horses | 13 | #3 | – | 2025–2026 | |
| 2 | Bloom Baby Bloom | 13 | #11 | – | 2025–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.