"The Last Man on Earth" | ||||
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Single by Wolf Alice | ||||
from the album Blue Weekend | ||||
Released | 24 February 2021 | |||
Genre | Dream pop • neo-psychedelia | |||
Length | 4:21 | |||
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Producer(s) | Markus Dravs | |||
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"The Last Man on Earth" on YouTube |
"The Last Man on Earth" is a song by English alternative rock band Wolf Alice. It was released on 24 February 2021 as the lead single for their third studio album, Blue Weekend . [1]
"The Last Man on Earth" was the band's first single in almost 3 years, following an extensive tour through 2018 and early 2019 for their second album, Visions of a Life . Frontwoman Ellie Rowsell said this about the lyrics of the song:
"It's about the arrogance of humans. I'd just read Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and I had written the line 'Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god' in my notes. But then I thought: 'Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn't a dancing lesson from god, it's just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more?'" [1]
The band first played "The Last Man on Earth" live on 5 March 2021, as a pre-recorded video for Later... with Jools Holland . [2] A month later, on 13 April, they shared another performance of the track on their YouTube channel, in a room lit with candles and spotlights. [3]
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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Various | February 24, 2021 | Dirty Hit | [1] | |
United States | April 4, 2022 | Adult alternative radio | RCA | [4] |
April 5, 2022 | Alternative radio | [5] |
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