“WE live in a society that rewards the hunger”
It’s time for Wolf Colony to speak his truth. Returning after his emphatic debut album ‘Unmasked’ he’s done with being silenced, and through with holding his tongue. If his inaugural LP was a powerful alt-pop statement, then what is set to follow is Wolf Colony unleashed, a potent songwriter moving into fresh spaces, exploring powerful new situations, using the full range of the vocabulary available to him.
But it’s been a long journey. Wolf Colony has always been aware of the power music can hold. A member of a Middle Eastern royal family, he lived within certain strictures, one that divorced him from his own independence. As a small child, he wasn’t even allowed to listen to pop, and he was outright banned from performing it – but this repressive environment simply reinforced its value in his life, both as an anchor in a troubled world, and as a means of much-needed personal expression.
This year will bring a series of singles, with Wolf Colony building his work into compact EPs. The bulk of this work was completed during lockdown, writing and recording in an East London flat, using a keyboard loaned to him by an absent flatmate. Spending long hours looking inward, Wolf Colony came to a greater realisation of who he really is; now he has to make good on a promise he made to himself a long time ago – one that he is determined not to break. “think it’s very rare in life that you get a second chance,” he sighs, “and this feels like I’m giving myself a second chance. I would never want to make that mistake again.”
New song ‘Hunger’ deals with city life, with those hyper-competitive workplaces, and burn out. It looks beyond the veneer of success, and questions what truly makes us happy. A gorgeous and hugely affecting piece of alt-pop, it poses questions that the post-pandemic world will need to answer. “New York is the epitome of success,” he says, “but the reality is, that I saw the other side of the curtain, and all those people were not happy.”
“One day I may be able to fully say who I am, where I’m from, and not feel like I have to hide any aspect of who I am,” he finished. “I think now, I’m ready to not let the past define me. One thing that I regret from the past five years is that I am not on my fourth or fifth album. That’s really it.”
-Robin Murray
Selected Press
"'Since his debut album Unmasked dropped earlier this year, we've been obsessed." - Wonderland
"'80s-inspired melodies that pop with shimmering backbeats and shattering hi-hats similar to that of those Ratatat rely on." - SPIN
"'A genuinely lovely cut of DIY Bedroom pop." - Noisey
"It brings me so much joy to say he has created one of those albums that feels, like an album – it is as a whole a work of art." - Live FAST
“A dark and sensual blend of minimalistic electronic-pop melodies intertwined with the vulnerable and melancholic vocals.” - Earmilk
“Swelling with intimate lyrics and walls of synthesizers, Unmasked sees Wolf Colony take a confident step into the world of full-length albums whilst keeping his various influences intact.” - Music Feeds
