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ok i didn't know horse lords, this band fucking rules wow

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:26 (eleven years ago)

Indeed, that Horse Lords record is great. Hope I get to see them live soon, all reports suggest that they are supremely cool in the live context.

grandavis, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:39 (eleven years ago)

ok i didn't know horse lords, this band fucking rules wow

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:26 PM (15 minutes ago)

+!!!

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:47 (eleven years ago)

this is like an evolution of sweep the leg johnny

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:49 (eleven years ago)

I'm confused, how does this band relate to PC?

sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:50 (eleven years ago)

played a show w/, do keep up.

i mean track 1 just busted into bongo beat breakdown and i am not only still on board, i am more on board than ever. the fuck you say.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:52 (eleven years ago)

that one time

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:52 (eleven years ago)

I'm 4 minutes into the first song and it's amazing. I'm going out tomorrow and buying this album.

nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:54 (eleven years ago)

this reminds me of Nomo a bit too

Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:01 (eleven years ago)

Horse Lords are insanely cool

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:27 (eleven years ago)

yes, amazing

Horse Lords

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (eleven years ago)

get the mixtapes first

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:29 (eleven years ago)

nine months pass...

wow the new ep fucking sucks

flappy bird, Friday, 27 November 2015 22:19 (ten years ago)

the new ep is awesome, but no one gets it

pplasma, Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:51 (ten years ago)

is it a joke?

flappy bird, Saturday, 28 November 2015 02:50 (ten years ago)

i like the cover art

dynamicinterface, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:30 (ten years ago)

Wow... I like this band even more than I thought.

Adam J Duncan, Sunday, 29 November 2015 07:16 (ten years ago)

Noodley instrumentals for the most part - easily their least essential release.

o. nate, Monday, 30 November 2015 03:59 (ten years ago)

I enjoyed the live album

Mark G, Monday, 30 November 2015 07:12 (ten years ago)

the new ep is awesome, but no one gets it

*best read in the disaffected voice of a clerk behind a record store counter in 1997*

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:52 (ten years ago)

i bought it blind because Content Nausea was so good, what a waste of fifteen bucks

flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:00 (ten years ago)

it sounds like an experiment in being really boring, either that or they now have opted Blur's 'A Spell (For Money)' b-side as a career template

PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:10 (ten years ago)

Annoying and boring, absolutely. Garbage noise jams. What a waste of a cool cover & title.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 00:47 (ten years ago)

Never buy anything blind! Seems perhaps significant that it's their first release on Rough Trade. Kind of like a "Look we can release whatever we want to, the label has no control over us" move maybe.

o. nate, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 03:49 (ten years ago)

I bought some of my favorite records ever blind - I can't remember ever feeling this gipped! And if that's the idea (I think you're right), they really are fucking daft. Who is the gesture meant for? It's not like Metal Machine Music, it's just irritating and tuneless practice jams that should've never been put to vinyl. They're not even bad in an interesting way, they're just loud and boring. Eager to hear whatever meta-commentary they had in mind though, cuz now im just peeved.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 05:56 (ten years ago)

How very punk of them.

Adam J Duncan, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 07:25 (ten years ago)

Hi, I likes the new e.p.

Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 11:29 (ten years ago)

What do you like about it? I want to like it. I want to justify my fifteen bucks.

flappy bird, Friday, 4 December 2015 18:45 (ten years ago)

It has "Sweet Sister Ray", krautrock, oh what does it have? All sorts.

Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 18:49 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Saw them tonight. Haven't been keeping up with their releases - loved Light Up Gold and was kind of unimpressed with the Tally EP (tho a pre-show relisten proved it a lot better & more fun than I'd remembered). At first I was like, "what's the deal with these guys? Isn't there a band or 2 in every town that's just this good?" but as the set wore on I found myself really impressed with how much they do with a pretty limited palette and bag of tricks. They kept me engaged for an hour, which at my age & when bed is calling is pretty impressive in my books. I don't think the drummer played one real fill the whole night (YEAH) and the Dave Grohl-looking bass player was really really good - solid and nimble, just like I like 'em. Will def be back on the bandwagon now.

hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 20 February 2016 05:36 (ten years ago)

^^^saw them last night, a great time, new stuff sounded pretty good.

Was just reading about the explanation of "Uncast Shadow": “That’s a totally true story about having a gun pulled out on us, and the guy who used that gun in Mississippi ended up killing a guy,” he reveals. “That was the reason I was able to finish it – this guy Paul MacLeod had this 24-hour psychotic Elvis worship museum in his house in Mississippi called Graceland Too, and the third time we went to visit him he pulled a gun out on us because Austin asked him if he had one; I’d already been writing that song about him, but when he killed that guy and I realised that he would have killed the guy with that same gun, that’s what made me finish the song.”

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340792495/with-its-eccentric-owner-gone-what-to-do-with-graceland-too

JoeStork, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:08 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

New songs are great. This is going to be their best record

nostormo, Monday, 28 March 2016 20:45 (ten years ago)

where can I hear it?

niels, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:08 (ten years ago)

it's certainly better than that shit EP

flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:07 (ten years ago)

Two songs with official videos up on Youtube. I like the Berlin one.

o. nate, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:18 (ten years ago)

still not as good as Light Up Gold. Austin Brown's are still way better

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:51 (ten years ago)

*Austin Brown's songs

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:51 (ten years ago)

I'm definitely an Andrew Savage partisan, but it's nice they have two songwriters with distinct styles. The "Content Nausea EP" has slowly supplanted "Light up Gold" as my favorite of their releases.

o. nate, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:45 (ten years ago)

I agree, they're stronger for it. My favorite song besides "Borrowed Time" is "Everyday It Starts," killer song.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:03 (ten years ago)

"Borrowed Time" is definitely one of their best. That's a Savage song, isn't it? Sometimes I have trouble telling their voices apart. I like how "Everyday It Starts" begins so minimalist and then builds and gets more interesting. Brown does write interesting song structures, whereas Savage's tend to be more verse-chorus-verse, though Savage's voice and lyrics are more memorable for me, and they tend to rock a bit harder.

o. nate, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:00 (ten years ago)

The new album is out today. Anyone else listening yet? Feeling the opener. And Velvet Underground vibe on One Man No City. Especially during the extended solo. Total VU drone going on too.

big firework, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:58 (ten years ago)

so this album is pretty good

thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:34 (ten years ago)

"Berlin Got Blurry" sounds a great deal like The Saints' "A Minor Aversion," so is this their Eternally Yours? I'd be excited to hear their Prehistoric Sounds next.

Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Friday, 8 April 2016 15:31 (ten years ago)

yeah this is good

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:06 (ten years ago)

This is dece but is still a runner-up to & lacks the hooks of Light Up Gold.

dronestreet, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:33 (ten years ago)

Yeah I feel the same. I think Sunbathing Animal is better as well actually.

nate woolls, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 06:00 (ten years ago)

yeah. only track i keep coming back to is "Steady on My Mind." light up gold is the most consistent but with all their records there are only a couple songs that stick for me.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:02 (ten years ago)

good on them for being so prolific, though.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:03 (ten years ago)

so this album is pretty good

feel that this level of enthusiasm is pegging red where the quarts are concerned

Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:38 (ten years ago)

and i like them alright

Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:38 (ten years ago)


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