Wunderhorse share reflective new single ‘Silver’
Wunderhorse have shared their reflective new single ‘Silver’ from their forthcoming second album ‘Midas’.
Opening with crisp guitar chords, ‘Silver’ sees frontman Jacob Slater sing: “Yeah I used to be crooked from the cradle / I’m a bastard from the beginning / And I saved some fairly folks / Within the hole of my coronary heart,” reflecting on himself.
In accordance with a press launch, the tune practically didn’t make it onto ‘Midas’ as a consequence of it feeling misplaced with the LP. The band – comprised of Slater, guitarist Harry Fowler, drummer Jamie Staples and bassist Pete Woodin – ultimately stripped again the tune whereas working in Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota and located its closing kind.
Talking about ‘Silver’ in a press launch, Slater mentioned: “The tune is about that ugly facet of your self that you simply attempt to maintain a secret, however you recognize it’s there as a result of it makes your pores and skin crawl generally. It will get you locations however fucks you up within the course of. Everybody has components of their make-up that they’d moderately not admit to or maintain locked away and by no means take a look at. That’s what ‘Silver’ is about. Type of.”
Directed by Polocho, the tune’s accompanying music video sees Slater sitting inside a dollhouse subsequent to a caged fowl whereas somebody friends in via the window. Different motifs that had been featured of their earlier music movies resembling a rocking horse and toy monkey are additionally seen.
‘Silver’ marks the third single to be launched from ‘Midas’ following ‘July’ and its title monitor. The LP is ready for launch on August 30 and is accessible for pre-save / pre-order here.
Beforehand talking in regards to the creation of the album, Slater mentioned: “After we first went into the studio to make this report, the one factor we had been certain about is how we wished it to sound; very imperfect, very stay, very uncooked; no frills. We wished it to sound like your face is pressed up towards the amplifiers such as you’ve been locked contained in the bass drum.”
‘Midas’ follows 2022’s ‘Cub’. In a four-star evaluate of the album, NME shared: “‘[The album] is a goodbye to the Jacob Slater we beforehand knew, and a massively thrilling welcome to a songwriter lastly changing into himself. You possibly can envisage him making data like this for many years to return.”
Following the success of the album, the four-piece graduated from enjoying in basements and pubs to filling Glastonbury’s Woodsies tent and promoting out Kentish City’s O2 Discussion board months prematurely.
It additionally noticed Wunderhorse step by step and naturally turn into a fully-formed band – comprised of Slater alongside guitarist Harry Fowler, drummer Jamie Staples and bassist Peter Woodin – leaving the solo period of Slater’s earlier “Wunderhorse” behind.
In different information, the band are set for a busy summer time with many main pageant slots together with Studying & Leeds, Boardmasters and TRNSMT, in addition to making their pageant headline debut at Dot to Dot Competition. They’re additionally set to embark on a UK and Eire tour later this 12 months. Visit here for tickets and take a look at a full listing of tour dates beneath.
Wunderhorse 2024 stay dates are:
JULY
12-14 – TRNSMT Competition, Glasgow
AUGUST
7-11 – Boardmasters Competition, Cornwall
22-25 – Studying and Leeds Competition
OCTOBER
3 – Rock Metropolis, Nottingham
4 – O2 Institute, Birmingham
5 – O2 Academy, Bristol
7 – The 1865, Southampton
8 – The Nice Corridor, Cardiff
10 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
11 – O2 Academy, Oxford
12 – UEA, Norwich
14 – O2 Academy, Liverpool
15 – Barrowland, Glasgow
16 – Vicar Road, Dublin
18 – Becketts College students’ Union, Leeds
19 – Academy, Manchester
20 – NX, Newcastle