Wolf Alice have previewed their forthcoming fourth album with a new track called ‘White Horses’. Following ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ and ‘The Sofa’, it’s the only song on The Clearing to feature drummer Joel Amey on lead vocals, and it grows into a cathartic duet with Ellie Rowsell. Check it out below.
“I was inspired by what songs we had already that were becoming The Clearing; the sonic shapes we were creating, the big acoustics, the harmonies, but I wanted to underpin it with a driving krautrock beat,” Amey explained in a statement. The track was born out of some lyrics he jotted down during a car journey with his mum, aunt, and sister. “We’ve never really known where we came in terms of heritage until recently. My mum and my aunt were adopted, and for years it posed questions of identity and where our roots lay for all of us, but for me, they never seemed like answers I needed to find out.”
Amey added: “I was on this big adventure with my best mates, never feeling the need to call one place home, living out a suitcase, all the stuff that comes with being in a band. I felt that the answers to ‘who I am and where do I come from?’ didn’t matter so much; I’d chosen my family and they were the people around me.”
”White Horses was me trying to put all that into a tune, and Ellie, Joff and Theo helped me all along the way,” he concluded.
The Clearing is set for release on August 22.
