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Brand: Horse Lords

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Redeye

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Release date

2020-03-27

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CDNS124

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309272740271

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309272740295

Artist

Horse Lords

Label EU

Northern Spy

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Northern Spy is a Brooklyn-based independent record label formed by former staff of the legendary ESP-Disk’ imprint. As an artist-run label, Northern Spy shines the light on musicians who are tenacious, forward-thinking and making devil-be-damned fine music, while finding substance in the disparate worlds of free improvisation and popular music.

Horse Lords is a quartet from Baltimore, Maryland. Their experimental music incorporates elements of krautrock, post-punk, Appalachian and African musical traditions. They use the just intonation tuning system favored by avantgarde composers La Monte Young and James Tenney, playing hand-modified guitars with repositioned frets. Horse Lords gained recognition on the American DIY scene after their debut album in 2012 and have since toured with Matmos, Guerilla Toss, and Guardian Alien.

The band's unique sound has garnered praise from critics and audiences alike. Their second LP was released by NNA Tapes in 2014. Horse Lords' performances at festivals such as Hopscotch, NXNE, and Fields Fest have further solidified their presence in the music scene.

With Andrew Bernstein on saxophone/percussion, Max Eilbacher on bass/electronics, Owen Gardner on guitar, and Sam Haberman on drums; Horse Lords continue to push boundaries with their polyrhythmic compositions and modular synthesis.

Newest Listed Items

'thistled spring' as a whole displays a rich progression - more textured and lush than the band's previous two albums, it also captures the skillful interplay of the band's current touring lineup of ringle, violinist nathan crockett, cellist catherine odell, and multi-instrumentalist sam cooper. lyrically ringle continues to explore broken relationships, longing, and pain, but this album has an undercurrent of heat that translates to a thawing of frozen hearts, and music, which rushes like spring torrents, all of which points to a resurgence of life after a hard winter. from the first piano notes of the title track, 'thistled spring' shows itself to be an album of rebirth, renewal, and fragile hope. the sun is out in the world evoked by this music, and in the first couple of songs it feels like the sun of early spring, glinting on a frosty river where the ice is just breaking up. 'thistled spring' and 'starving robins' both continue ringle's trademark use of space in songwriting, but in this case the space is full of potential, like the spaces between drops of melting snow. the sun gets stronger and warmer as the album moves along, shining most brilliantly in the jaunty, joyous 'belly of june', where ringle's characteristically spare vocals become fattened up with delicious harmonies as the music swells with strings and banjo. things get positively hot in 'cascades' and 'the drought' before blossoming into the full-fledged pop americana gem 'vernonia blues'. on kill rock stars.

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Music EU