“We were too scared to take our own. We’d heard so many horror stories about guitars, planes and airports”: Wunderhorse turned up to the birthplace of Nirvana's In Utero, borrowed some guitars – and made one of the year’s best alt rock records

A portrait of British alt-rock band Wunderhorse, with frontman Jacob Slater in the foreground, arms folded.

UK alt-rockers Wunderhorse started life as a solo project for singer/guitarist Jacob Slater, releasing their debut album, Cub, in 2022.

Its mix of ’90s-fueled punk and indie received uniformly strong reviews, leading Slater to find a collection of like-minded souls to take the music on the road. With their sophomore album, Midas, Wunderhorse have morphed into a fully collaborative unit, something Slater didn’t expect.