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SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘ARIZONA’
MUCH-ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM
MIDAS ARRIVES THIS FRIDAY
Wunderhorse are pleased to share the single ‘Arizona’: the final taster of their widely-anticipated new album, Midas, coming out this Friday (30th August) via Communion.
‘Arizona’ arrives hot on the heels of a weekend which saw Wunderhorse filling Reading Festival’s BBC Radio 1 tent and attracting a record crowd of 7,000 to Leeds Festival’s tiny BBC Introducing stage after their Radio 1 tent was demolished by weather.
To mark the track’s release, Wunderhorse have shared an intimate acoustic recording of ‘Arizona’, performed by frontman Jacob Slater.
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 follows the band’s acclaimed 2022 debut, Cub, and sees the band striding confidently into their role as one of British guitar music’s most exciting outfits.
Adopting an organic, unpolished recording process, Midas is a collection which captures the visceral atmosphere of Wunderhorse’s lauded live performances. “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,” frontman Jacob Slater explains. “We wanted it to sound like your face is pressed up against the amplifiers, like you’ve been locked inside the bass drum.”
This autumn, the band’s biggest headline shows to date will see Wunderhorse taking to the stage at iconic venues across the UK and Ireland, including a stop at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
Debut album Cub has taken on a life of its own in the 20 months since its 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 O2 Forum Kentish Town 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.
Wunderhorse’s show-stopping sets at Reading + Leeds followed a Cornwall homecoming for Jacob at Boardmasters and a co-headline spot alongside Mercury-nominated duo Jockstrap at Dot to Dot festival.
MIDAS IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE
TICKETS FOR WUNDERHORSE’S UK/IRE TOUR ARE AVAILABLE HERE
Wunderhorse live dates:
31 Aug .. Rough Trade East, London (sold out)
1 Sept .. Resident Records, Brighton (sold out)
2 Sept .. Jacaranda Records, Liverpool (sold out)
3 Oct .. Rock City, Nottingham
4 Oct .. O2 Institute, Birmingham
5 Oct .. O2 Academy, Bristol
7 Oct .. The 1865, Southampton (sold out)
8 Oct .. The Great Hall, Cardiff
10 Oct .. O2 Academy Brixton, London
11 Oct .. O2 Academy, Oxford
12 Oct .. UEA, Norwich
14 Oct .. O2 Academy, Liverpool
15 Oct .. Barrowland, Glasgow (sold out)
16 Oct .. Vicar Street, Dublin (sold out)
18 Oct .. Becketts Students’ Union, Leeds (sold out)
19 Oct .. Academy, Manchester (sold out)
20 Oct .. NX, Newcastle
