A Hot Mess at Its Best: Remi Wolf’s ‘Mud’

Reading time: about 6 minutes If you were to google Remi Wolf, one of the first images to appear would be the album cover of Wolf’s latest album Mud. In the image, Wolf herself is covered in a bunch of mud with a beaming smile. She isn’t afraid to get messy; when she does, she’s truly at her best. Following years of funk-pop releases, like Dominic Fike’s remix of “Photo ID” and Off Campus-famous “Soup,” the American Idol alum has seemingly switched lanes into a stripped-down indie-pop sound, with touches of country acoustics. And it often works — but like I said, for Remi Wolf, the messier the better. Mud opens with the vulnerable track “Bottle,” where Wolf details her path to sobriety. She croons about “sweet, sweet, nicotine,” and that “I can’t get the bottle if I don’t get up,” in the chorus, going “on and off and on again,” in an endless cycle of repetition with substances.

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