Wunderhorse

When: 29th October 2023
Location: SWG3 Galvanizers

Wunderhorse are an English rock band formed by frontman and songwriter Jacob Slater. Coming to Glasgow’s SWG3 Galvanizers on 29th October 2023.

Jacob Slater (AKA Wunderhorse) ‘s album ‘cub’ received huge praise from media such as NME, Gigwise, DIY and many more. 17 is the oldest song here, its bittersweet melody reminiscent of Lemonheads. “I wrote that when I was forming Dead Pretties but it never really went anywhere says Slater. “The album is sort of documenting my adolescence, that bracket of time. So I’ve got that as the earliest bookend to start that process off and Epilogue. The last track on the album was written the day before we went into the studio.” The life lived between those two points has been a storied one and its scars are there in many of the songs here.

Teal’s Lou Reed-like street hussle, the dense psychedelic fug of Poppy or Morphine’s strung-out bliss. Yet songs such as The Girl Behind The Glass’s tumbling melody show multiple perspectives and viewpoints are at work within Slater’s songs, his lyrics are far more complex and layered than first meets the eye. By the time the listener reaches Epilogue’s meditation on lost innocence and the slow inevitable march towards eternity it’s clear that for whatever reasons he needed to do it, Jacob Slater’s decision to step away from music and remerge afresh as Wunderhorse is a gamble that has paid off in dividends. Not only for him, but most of all for us, the listeners who get to immerse ourselves in Cub.