Posted By: Editor
July 24, 2024
ANNOUNCE EXTENSIVE UK & IRISH TOUR FOR AUTUMN 2024
AUGUST 9th OUTSTORE SHOW AT EXETER PHOENIX ALSO SELLING FAST
BAND SHARE NEW SINGLE “SILVER”
LISTEN HERE / WATCH HERE
NEW ALBUM ‘MIDAS’ ARRIVES 30th AUGUST
Wunderhorse are pleased to share “Silver” (LISTEN HERE), the third taster of the band’s forthcoming album, ‘Midas’, which will arrive 30th August 2024 (via Communion).
Originally conceived long before Midas began to take shape, “Silver” almost failed to make the record due to the niggling feeling that its pieces weren’t quite fitting into place. Whilst stateside at Pachyderm Studio, Wunderhorse stripped it down to basics and inspiration struck to complete the jigsaw.
“The song is about that ugly side of yourself that you try to keep a secret, but you know it’s there because it makes your skin crawl sometimes,” frontman Jacob Slater says of the track. “It gets you places but f**ks you up in the process. Everyone has elements of their makeup that they’d rather not admit to or keep locked away and never look at. That’s what “Silver” is about. Kind of.”
Having wowed the crowd at last week’s TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow, and with further UK summer festival slots also confirmed at Cornwall’s Boardmasters (a Cornish homecoming for frontman Jacob Slater) plus Reading & Leeds Festivals, this autumn will see Wunderhorse step into bigger, iconic venues for a newly-announced UK & Irish headline tour, including a stop at London’s O2 Academy Brixton. Tickets for the following headline shows are available now HERE;
3 October Nottingham Rock City
4 October Birmingham 02 Institute
5 October Bristol 02 Academy
7 October Southampton 1865
8 October Cardiff Great Hall
10 October London 02 Academy Brixton
11 October Oxford 02 Academy
12 October Norwich UEA
14 October Liverpool 02 Academy
15 October Glasgow Barrowland
16 October Dublin Vicar Street
18 October Leeds Beckett’s University
19 October Manchester Academy
20 October Newcastle NX
In addition to this new autumn 2024 headline tour, tickets are selling fast for a number of intimate instore & outstore live shows which the band will play in support of their highly-anticipated new album ‘Midas’ – dates as follows;
26 August Leeds Jumbo Records (5:30pm) SOLD OUT
1 September Brighton Resident Music (6:00pm) SOLD OUT
1 September Brighton Resident Music (7:00pm) SOLD OUT
Recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studio (birthplace of Nirvana’s In Utero & PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me) with producer Craig Silvey (The Rolling Stones, The National, Florence + the Machine), ‘Midas’ is the band’s second LP, following 2022’s debut ‘Cub’.
‘Midas’ adopts an unpolished recording process which captures the visceral atmosphere of Wunderhorse’s lauded live performances. Frontman Jacob Slater explains:
“When we first went into the studio to make this record, the only thing we were sure about is how we wanted it to sound; very imperfect, very live, very raw; no frills,” Slater says of the new album. “We wanted it to sound like your face is pressed up against the amplifiers, like you’ve been locked inside the bass drum.”
Debut album ‘Cub’ has taken on a life of its own in the 18 months since release, with sprawling, psychedelic numbers and sharp grunge refrains alike igniting Wunderhorse’s ever-growing audience. ‘Cub’’s campaign and the months following have seen the four-piece graduate from playing in basements and pubs to filling Glastonbury’s Woodsies tent and selling out London’s O2 Forum months in advance.
Across the mammoth tour leading up to and following ‘Cub’’s release, Slater and his bandmates – guitarist Harry Fowler, drummer Jamie Staples and bassist Peter Woodin – gradually and naturally became a fully-formed band and left the solo era of Wunderhorse behind.
As their crowds have grown exponentially in both scale and ardency, and ‘Cub’’s tracks have reached the status of cultural reference points within the younger contingents of their fanbase, it seems harder than ever to recall a time when frontman Jacob Slater believed that his career was over before his twenties had even begun.
Having burned himself out as the teenage frontman of the much-hyped but ultimately ill-fated punk outfit Dead Pretties, Jacob retired to Cornwall to repair the damage that he had caused himself.
It was whilst working as a surf instructor on the UK’s south western perimeter that Jacob rekindled his love of songwriting: this time spinning introspective, considered compositions which transcended his younger years and went on to form the foundations of Wunderhorse.
New album ‘Midas’ is available to pre-order HERE
