You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Wolf Alice is a four-piece band from North London.
They've been nominated for a Grammy and England's Mercury Prize.
Their second album, Visions of a Life, was released in September 2017.
In this episode,
singer and guitarist Ellie Rousel and drummer Joel Aimee tell the story of how they made the song Don't Delete the Kisses.
Their album was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson,
and coming up later, you'll hear some of his thoughts as well.
Don't Delete the Kisses went through a lot of versions.
There was a home demo that Ellie made, another demo with the full band,
plus studio versions that they recorded in LA with Justin.
There were a lot of ideas that were created, but then scrapped later.
In this episode, they trace the path through those ideas,
as well as how the song was influenced by Father John Misty, PJ Harvey, and the film Francis Ha.
It's Wolf Alice on Song Exploder.
My name is Ellie.
I sing and play guitar in Wolf Alice.
My name's Joel and I play drums.