Day 66 (May 24): Wolf Gang - Alveron

If you have spent more than a single second on Instagram in the past couple of months, you might have seen the 30 day song challenge. I am not above it, even if my attempt petered out at about 8 days, for the record.

One of the entries really stuck with me, though - the "pick a song by a band who's no longer together". There are many obvious answers to that - bands whose members have died, bands made up of brothers who hate each other, all of them very admirable and high-class. It is a sad fact that every time I've seen one of those entries, I've thought "but what about the early 2010s alternative band, Wolf Gang?".

Justice for Wolf Gang, I think. Their music may not have been special, or particularly distinctive (Suego Faults bangs, though, I swear), but they've wormed my way into their playlists for longer than the band may actually have been together. Today's song of the day is "Alveron", the title track from their second and last album in 2014.

It's also the closer, making it, in its own way, the finale of their entire career. I think it makes a good song that much more poignant. It's good to go out on something that's not a high, as such, but kind of above medium. RIP, Wolf Gang. I won't forget you just yet.