“Giant Peach” by Wolf Alice

"Giant Peach" arrived in February 2015 alongside the news of Wolf Alice's debut album, My Love Is Cool, and as its lead single on Dirty Hit it made one loud first impression. Ellie Rowsell has called it a love affair with London, the city she grew up in, and the title tips its hat to Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. She pitched it as a song for dancing and for losing your mind in equal measure. Rowsell wrote it with Joel Amey, Theo Ellis and Joff Oddie; Mike Crossey produced and mixed it, and Jonathan Gilmore engineered.

Zane Lowe gave it its first spin on BBC Radio 1, crowning it his Hottest Record in the World, and it took Best Track at the 2016 NME Awards. The mockumentary video casts Tony Gardner as a manager, with a cameo from Ewen MacIntosh, and in 2016 the song joined the GHTV lineup in Guitar Hero Live.

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