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NEW ALBUM MIDAS ARRIVES 30th AUGUST
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Wunderhorse are pleased to share ‘Rain’ – the latest taster of the band’s forthcoming album, ‘Midas’, which will arrive 30th August via Communion.
‘Rain’ opens with the clangs of equipment and loose strums which have come to reflect the rough and ready ethos of Midas’ recording process.
“Rain is about the feeling that makes you look over your shoulder sometimes, the idea that the forces that shape your world are unaware of your existence and beyond your control,” frontman Jacob Slater explains. “Something is coming but you don’t know what it is and you can’t stop it.”
The track lands alongside a live recording from Wunderhorse’s November 2023 headline performance at O2 Forum Kentish Town.
WATCH ‘RAIN (LIVE AT THE FORUM)’ HERE
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,” he 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.”
This autumn, the band’s headline shows will see them step into bigger, iconic venues on their newly-announced UK tour, which include a stop at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
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 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.
The week prior to ‘Midas’’ release will see Wunderhorse take to the stage at Reading + Leeds, hot on the heels of a Cornwall homecoming for Jacob at Boardmasters festival. Earlier in 2024, the band shared a co-headline spot alongside Mercury-nominated duo Jockstrap at Dot to Dot festival.
MIDAS IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE
Wunderhorse – 2024 live dates;
7-11 Aug .. Boardmasters Festival, Cornwall
9 Aug .. Phoenix, Exeter (Truck Records outstore) – TICKETS
22-25 Aug .. Reading and Leeds Festival
23 Aug .. O2 Academy 2, Leicester (Truck Records outstore) – TICKETS
26 Aug .. Crash Records, Leeds (sold out)
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
20 Oct .. NX, Newcastle
