Wolf Alice have released the latest teaser of their new album ‘The Clearing’ – listen to ‘White Horses’ below.
The North London band announced their fourth studio album in May and it will be released on August 22 via Sony (pre-order/pre-save here). It follows on from their debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’, Mercury Prize-winning sophomore release ‘Visions Of A Life’ and 2022’s cinematic ‘Blue Weekend’.
They have already shared the singles ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ and ‘The Sofa’, and now they are back with ‘White Horses’.
Featuring drummer Joel Amey sharing rapid fire lead vocals with Ellie Rowsell, it is based around a hypnotic acoustic guitar riff that propels the psych-flavoured track like a driving synth line. Watch the video here:
Amey has said: “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.”
Speaking about the inspiration for the song, he 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.”
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NME reviewed ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, awarding it five stars and writing: “After three albums of building and expanding their world, and experiencing the ups and downs of the music industry, it feels like the band are ready to stake their claim as one of their generation’s most important acts. Now, Wolf Alice are undoubtedly in full bloom.”
In support of their new record, Wolf Alice are set to hit the road on a headline tour of the UK and Ireland. See the full list of dates here and buy your tickets here.
In June, the band spoke to NME at Glastonbury about how the response to their third album shaped their approach to ‘The Clearing’.
“I think very much. I think we were buoyed by the songier songs being things that people really connected to and we spent a lot more time working on those constituency, songy song parts of the songs,” Joff Oddie said. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to write a really concise song in a – I don’t wanna say pop structure, but you know what I mean. It’s quite easy to throw a five-minute jam together, but that’s so difficult, so it’s a brilliant challenge and that’s more so where we were focused with this album.”
NME gave Wolf Alice’s Glastonbury 2025 performance five stars, writing: “The energy they pour into today’s set feels like that of a band who should be topping the Pyramid Stage next time they play Worthy Farm.
“As the set ends with ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’ – a strong contender for one of the best, most dizzyingly accurate love songs ever written – that feeling only intensifies. That song finds Rowsell writing herself a romantic Hollywood ending; Wolf Alice’s world-beating set does the same for Glastonbury 2025.”
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