Wolf Alice share new track "White Horses" featuring drummer Joel Amey on lead vocals

"White Horses" is the only song on The Clearing to see drummer Joel Amey who wrote the song, take on lead vocals before a duet with Ellie Rowsell takes place. “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,” he explains.

The lyrics are about his family, “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.” As he travelled the world with Wolf Alice throughout his 20’s, his sense of home became vaguer. “I was on this big adventure with my best mates, never feeling the need to call one place home, living out of 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.”

Wolf Alice’s fourth album The Clearing follows their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated "Moaning Lisa Smile"; 2018’s follow-up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize win, and 2022’s number one album, Blue Weekend with its resultant Brit Award for Best Group.