Don’t cage Julia Wolf in with your expectations or labels. She’ll just push back. “As soon as I start feeling boxed into one thing, I immediately get this itch of having to get out of it,” she explains. “I don’t feel the need to constantly stay the same. I will switch it up and make what feels authentic to me at the current time always.”
True to her nature, when it came to writing her second album PRESSURE – released in May – her emotions pulled her away from the propulsive pop of 2023’s Good Thing We Stayed towards a more fluid sound dominated by warm, tender guitar riffs. Even within that space, she’s still chameleonic, gliding between sounds as varied as the techy guitar pop of Kill You Off, the tumultuous Pearl (complete with sneak-attack heaviness in its back half) and the gritty, self-effacing Loser.
“I knew I wanted the sound to be heavy and alternative leaning, but I wanted it to push further past what was expected of me,” she says. “It’s literally just all my favourite things thrown together in a way that feels cool to me.”