Name: Horse
Brand: Holy Motors

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Catalogue number

WCR106cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-06

Signed copies

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563129241

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WCR106LP

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843563129265

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Artist

Holy Motors

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Wharf Cat

HOLY MOTORS is a Tallinn, Estonia based dark twang & reverb band from a nonexistent movie. Formerly known as Heavenly Motors, the four-piece group has been active since April 2013. Despite keeping a low profile, their live performances have left audiences delighted and compared to the likes of The Brian Jonestown Massacre or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Their soundtracks evoke the moods of Aki Kaurismäki movies. Holy Motors has already played alongside well-known American indie rock group Sic Alps and performed at Tallinn Music Week showcase in 2013.

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Fantastic and dreamy album for fans of Mazzy Star, Duke Spirit and Sunflower Bean. The more hopeful ‘sunrise’ to 2018’s critically acclaimed Slow Sundown, Horse finds Tallinn, Estonia’s Holy Motors acknowledging the Americana and rockabilly strands of their musical DNA without sacrificing any of the otherworldly mystique that keeps them from neatly conforming to the shoegaze and dreampop labels often applied to their music.

From the album’s opening moments, songs like Country Church, with its major key and classic rhythm and blues guitarline, and Midnight Cowboy, which sounds like a lost Buddy Holly 45 played at 33 rpm, make it clear that Horse - even if it may not accomplish the impossible task of demystifying this band of ex-Soviet cowboys - will at least show you that there’s more to them than the near-impenetrable darkness of their work to date may suggest. While tracks like Trouble and Endless Night gravitate towards the ethereal production and existential subject matter of prior releases, repeat listens will reveal the same complex compositions and humanity that are much more a hallmark of Horse’s eight songs.

As a whole, Horse stands as a warmer, more human counterpoint to 2018’s celestial Slow Sundown. As to which of the two entries better approximates Holy Motors’ natural set point, only time will tell.

Horse

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