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With their stunning debut album, My Love Is Cool, now racking up acclaim across the globe, London’s Wolf Alice are pleased to announce live favourite ‘You’re A Germ’ as their next single. Flirting with whispered menace and arms-aloft euphoria in equal measure, ‘You’re A Germ’ cements its position as a peg of My Love Is Cool’s effervescent personality from the off, with vocalist Ellie Rowsell inciting both spine-tingling scorn and all-out snarled malice.

It’s a track backed by furious screeches of guitars, every lick breaking free of the shackles of indie-rock and touching base with everything from ’90s grunge shoegaze to stadium-filling pop in the process. As Ellie states: “‘You’re A Germ’ is our angry song about a human germ we have to seek revenge on. We have been moved to see some of our fans singing it back to us at shows already… it’s a song only to be sang LOUDLY.”

With the band gearing up for a packed autumn on the road – including a homecoming headline date at Brixton Academy – ‘You’re A Germ’’s extended scope is the spark that will help their already incendiary live show burn even brighter.

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Catch Wolf Alice on the following live dates:

* w/ Drenge & Made Violent as support.

JULY

18 – Latitude Festival – Suffolk, UK
19 – Longitude Festival – Dublin, Ireland
23 – Corner Hotel – Melbourne, AUS
24 – Oxford Art Factory – Sydney, AUS
26 – Splendour In The Grass – Tenindewa, AUS

AUGUST

1 – Surf Lodge – Montauk, NY, USA
2 – Summer Block Series – Philadelphia, PA, USA
5 – Middle East – Cambridge, MA, USA
6 – The Hollow – Albany, NY, USA
8 – Alt 98.7 Summer Camp – LA, CA, USA
11 – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR, USA
12 – Neumos – Seattle, WA, USA
15 – Summer Sonic – Tokyo, JPN
26 – Openair Festival – Zurich, SUI
28 – Rock En Seine – Paris, FRA
28 – 30 – Reading & Leeds Festival, UK

SEPTEMBER

05 – Jersey Live – Jersey, Jersey
12 – Dcode Festival – Madrid, ES
13 – Lollapalooza – Berlin, DE
16 – Bristol Academy *
17 – Birmingham Institute *
19 – Glasgow ABC *
21 – Newcastle University *
22 – Sheffield Plug *
23 – Southampton Guildhall *
25 – Manchester Albert Hall *
26 – London Brixton Academy *
29 – The Met – Providence, RI, USA *

OCTOBER

1 – U Street Music Hal – Washington, DC, USA*
2 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY, USA *
3 – Adelaide Hall – Toronto, ON, Canada *
5 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN, USA *
6 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL, USA *
9 – Austin City Limits – Austin, TX, USA
11 – Vally Bar – Phoenix, AZ, USA *
12 – The Irenic – San Diego, CA, USA *
13 – The Fonda Theatre – Los Angeles, CA, USA *
15 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA, USA *
18 – Trees – Dallas, TX, USA

NOVEMBER

18 – Botanique / Rotonde – Brussels, Belgium
19 – Luxor – Cologne, Germany
20 – Lido – Berlin, Germany
22 – Taubchenthal Club – Leipzig, Germany
23 – Uebel & Gefaehrich – Hamburg, Germany
24 – Bitterzoet – Amsterdam, Holland