Wunderhorse’s incredible run in 2025 cruised into Truck Festival on a scorching Saturday afternoon. The main stage had just been set alight by the indomitable spirit of CMAT, could Jacob Slater and co fan the flames further?
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From the explosion of ‘Midas’ to the fraught ‘Teal’ to the emotionally charged ‘July’, Wunderhorse unveiled the blueprint for being in a band. A vivid chronicle of adolescence, tangled romances, and substance-fuelled chaos.
Crucial to their success is their overriding sense of realness. As sweat pours from Slater, you can visibly see his soul being left on stage. These moments of reckless joy, intertwined with alt-rock bands of the 90s and Neil Young, was met head-on by the crowd with despairing empathy and the kind adulating self-sabotage that only a band of the moment can extract.
Amidst the angst and turmoil, lay ‘Purple’ and ‘Teal. The former a delicate powerhouse of a single. Soulful, catchy, and blessed with rock ‘n’ roll’s desperation to be heard, and heard it was! A deafening roar of joy from the Truck crowd stemmed from crowd to stage, proof that to be an outsider is still the greatest place to reside! ‘Teal’, however, was a shimmering moment of US guitars lit up by the brooding working class of the UK. Slater’s vocals embodied hope. The kind that’s born amongst life-long friends, leaving school, drinking to the wee hours, and plotting to change the world.
On this balmy evening, feeling was anything but failing!
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