In “White Horses” by Wolf Alice sings the drummer Joel Amey

“White Horses”the new piece of the Wolf Alice (here our interview), contained in their expected new album, “The Clearing ”, is the only one of the project in which the drummer Joel Amey becomes the main voice. The song was born from a demo of Joel, inspired by some verses noted on the phone, during an unusual car trip with his mother, aunt and sister. Joel, towards the end of the recordings of “The Clearing”, returned to that text and brought the skeleton of the song to the rest of the bandwhich together contributed to developing it until a song in line with the overall vision of the new chapter is obtained. Joel commented: “I let myself be inspired by the songs that were giving shape to ‘The Clearing’, by the melodic structures that we were buildingfrom the acoustic parts, from the harmonies, but I wanted to support them with a Krautrock -style pulsating rhythm “.

Regarding the text, concerning his family, Joel said: “We never really knew where we came from, in terms of origins, until recently. My mother and aunt have been adopted and for years this has raised questions about our identity and on our roots. For me they have never been answers that I felt I had to look for“Thanks to the experiences lived by traveling to the world with Wolf Alice during his twenty years, his idea of” home “has become less and less clear. In this regard, Joel added: “I was in a great adventure with my best friends, without ever feeling the need to call a” home “place, living with a single suitcase and everything that involves being in a band. I felt that the answers to ‘Who are they?’ And “Where do I come from?” They were not so important. I had chosen my family and it was the people around me. “ And again: “‘White Horses’ was my attempt to transform all this into a song and Ellie, Joff and Theo supported me throughout the journey”.

The song is inspired by psychedelic dance music, merging with The 70s rock which characterizes the rest of the album. It has a sound that opens up to different possibilities, with fascinating sound deviations that culminate in an exciting growth. The song is full of a delicate but powerful psychedelia, opening up with intense and direct verses: “Know Who I am that’s important to me / do what i can to see the Wood from the Trees”. The song comes after the individuals who anticipated the album: “Bloom Baby Bloom” and “The Sofa”, presented after the band’s return to the stage “The Other Stage” of the Glastonbury Festival. Written in the London neighborhood, Seven Sisters, and recorded last year in Los Angeles with the winner of Grammy and producer Greg Kurstin, the new project brings together a series of pieces that show the ambition, ideas and emotions that pushed the band to create it. It is a classic pop/rock album that winks at the 70s, but which remains firmly anchored to this. If the Fleetwood Macs Mac today wrote a disc in northern London, it would probably play similar to this album, characterized, from a sound point of view, by the elimination of superfluous or tinsel details.