Wolf Alice take the reins on storming new single ‘White Horses’

Wolf Alice have continued their masterclass build up to fourth album ‘The Clearing’ - which hits shelves on 22nd August via Columbia - with an instant-classic new cut entitled ‘White Horses’. 

Inspired by ideas of identity and familial connection, the krautrock-influenced track sees drummer Joel Amey take on lead vocal duties, before frontwoman Ellie Rowsell joins for a powerful duet, delivering deeply personal lyrics originally penned by Joel on a car journey with his mum, aunt and sister.  

Explaining more about the song’s conception, he has shared: “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.”

And, as he found a different sense of belonging within the band in his 20s, the notion of ‘home’ took on new meaning. “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,” he has affirmed. “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.” 

‘White Horses’ follows the bombastic ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ and ode to lounging around ‘The Sofa’ to be the third track lifted from ‘The Clearing’, which will be Wolf Al’s first studio album since 2022’s ‘Blue Weekend’. 

You can revisit our verdict on the band’s triumphant Glasto set and watch the official lyric video for ‘White Horses’ below.