Remi Wolf - Mud

Mud is the third album from Remi Wolf, following 2021's Juno and 2024's Big Ideas. Where those records were characterised in the supplied album notes as vividly technicolour, Mud is presented as their more neutral, earthy and grounded sibling. Wolf's personality and instinct for colour remain intact, but the record comes from a more rooted place, with vulnerability and immediacy moved to the foreground. It is a shift in emphasis rather than a rejection of what came before, placing the focus on raw feeling and the physical character of musicians playing together.

That approach is reflected directly in the sound. The album strips away much of the reliance on synthesizers and programmed drums described in Wolf's earlier work, instead leaning into a more organic setup. The supplier notes compare the atmosphere to singing around a campfire with friends and a couple of guitars: informal, open and close to the moment of creation. That sense of exposure also informs the writing, with Wolf presenting the songs as some of her most lyrically and sonically vulnerable material. The metaphor around making a new trail to reach a clearing captures the album's underlying process: finding a different route in order to arrive somewhere simpler and more direct.

For listeners who have followed Wolf through Juno and Big Ideas, Mud therefore offers another angle on the same restless creative identity. Rather than building its impact primarily through dense electronic production, the record centres a stripped-back musical language and the feeling of people sharing a room. The result is positioned as a more grounded chapter in Wolf's catalogue while retaining the expressive character that connects it to her previous albums.

This vinyl release is available in two editions. The standard version is pressed on pink vinyl. The Indies/HMV exclusive is pressed on grey marble vinyl and features alternate artwork, giving the exclusive pressing a distinct visual presentation as well as its own colour treatment. Both editions are released by EMI on 9 October 2026. The tracklist remains to be confirmed, so no unverified song sequence has been added here.