Stalking Horse

Take a less ethereal, more realistic and world-weary Everything Everything, then squeeze it through a Thom Yorke sized hole.. This is a track which works a lot better than my description suggests it should, combining insistent drummings with the ever vogue falsetto to create an intense, impassioned single in the lullaby lineage. Lovely stuff. - The 405

Imagine if Everything Everything were just that little bit more earthly, with the piercing falsetto cropped like a doggie’s toenails, and the weird neon dissolved into a hazy orange. That’s it – you’re imagining it! That’s the sound of Stalking Horse’s new single, and cozy it is too. - Artrocker

Luckily, Stalking Horse (Wu from This Et Al's new moniker) not only engages with his audience, he marries them thrice over. As he debuts his new material, bolstered by local talent, onlookers are enthralled by his piercing vocals and soaring tunes. - NME

Pulse does fewer favours for Stalking Horse - both space and sound-wise - but ultimately it doesn't make much odds. The set is more than strong enough to transcend any minor worries, including a brief wrong-turn in the setlist, which is handled with good-tempered bewilderment. Like Big Deal, they have a rather distinctive take on texture, although Stalking Horse's approach is markedly more successful: in the main, it's dual drums and triple guitars (with sporadic cameo moments for mandolin, bass and keys). The result is a curious kind of stratification of registers, with a super-beefy sounding rhythmic foundation and a wired, brittle high-end which matches Wu's haunted vocals perfectly. Musical nerdiness aside, the core of intelligent, literate pop songs are simply ear-catching - look no further than new single 'Waterhole' for some convincing. It goes with out saying, too, that there's musical and technical know-how in abundance (what else can you really expect from a Leeds supergroup of this ilk?). - Leeds Music Scene

First, local lads Stalking Horse draw a surprisingly large crowd who stand in rapt appreciation of their arresting dreamy, dramatic rock-scapes... - Clash

Then come Stalking Horse onstage at the cavernous Leeds Met. Something of a Leeds super group if you adored Brudenell bands circa 2006-2008, they’re essentially the project of Wu, former singer for doom-laden post-punk types This Et Al. Their “super” status though is ensured with the appearance of former Grammatics frontman Owen Brinley on guitar. Although the music doesn’t quite hit the levels that combination suggests, there’s promise aplenty – a calmer, more electronic take on the previous formula. - The Fly