Name: Interventions
Brand: Horse Lords

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-NS-075LEIEC

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Cloudy Blue Vinyl

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

309272738803

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Horse Lords

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Northern Spy Records

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.

West African rhythms collide with just intonation guitars, art-fire saxophone, minimalist grooves, and collaged zapdowns on Interventions, the powerful third full-length from Baltimore's Horse Lords. The band's Northern Spy debut is also the first Horse Lords album to explore the classic studio-as-weaponry strategies of yore, mapping the quartet's raw Baltimore lightning onto the experimental musique concrète territory surveyed by elder heads like Faust and This Heat.

Founded at the turn o' the 'teens by Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar), and Sam Haberman (drums), Horse Lords quickly established themselves as avant-heavies with the two extended tracks of their powerful self-titled debut (Ehse Records, 2012). Playing custom electric guitars and basses refretted by Gardner, the band's rolling polyrhythms chime with the strange and distinct harmonies of just intonation inspired by the master La Monte Young and other heroes. Where the earliest Horse Lords releases, also including Hidden Cities (NNA Tapes, 2014) concentrated on linear performance, a trio of Mixtape cassettes (self-released, 2012-2014) pointed the way towards the newest turn in the Horse Lords saga. Interventions is (as they say) a new phase Horse Lords album with Bernstein's saxophone and the microtonal guitars pinging through the stereo mix with single-minded purpose. Horse Lords is a band, its members serving a range of functions over multiple axes, from the audible (writing and performing music) to the structural (altering their instruments), to the soundscape in between (editing together Interventions' threaded mini-suites). Floating at the boundaries of composition and improvisation, electronics and performance, the underground and the vast improbable 21st century indie mainstream, Horse Lords exist in none of these places and all of them. More accurately, they exist on Interventions, the album you now hold in your proverbial hands, perhaps noticing the reflection of the imaginary room's light reflecting on the LP cover, ready to cue up as you find yourself in the new beyond of tomorrow's ecstasies and today's Horse Lords.

Interventions

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