Horse Lords

Guitars tuned in just intonation tunings Global. The next frontier ....

finally got a copy of Max from HL's excellent solo album from last year, RED ANXIETY TRACERS, highly recommended, doesnt sound like HL, minimal noise/ music concrete i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l6k9HXFdeM

Max is about to do a tour on the west coast w Luminous Kudler after playing some Horse Lords gigs so if you dig him solo definitely check those out, I just caught his new set with his new modular-to-computer-and-back-again rig and it was really righteous

I should prob nominate a song or two for the epics poll

I voted for Who Taught You to Hate Yourself? in the 2012 tracks poll so maybe that one...

Any info on the tour out there? Would love to catch him.

Horse Lords play VASSAR college tonight, FYI

their Facebook tends to list these things, and max is @420_horchata on Twitter if you wanna see what he's up to

Thanks! I might have to figure out how to swing a round trip to Olympia on Wednesday...

http://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-cities-remix

remixes by the tune is space, Milton Parker, etc.

the album still rules and is in my regular rotation

Great! Will get those tonight. "Outer East" is such a great track to play in the car, pedal to the metal at 10 minutes in :)
Who's Milton Parker on that list of remixers?

I can't say, sorry, just remembered that

Ha, ok, no problem.

Oh, need to check that out. Only recently heard the impressive album.

new album!

http://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/interventions

!!

and a tour!
4/27 Philadelphia, PA TBA
4/28 TBA, TBA TBA
4/29 Brooklyn, NY TBA
4/30 Cambridge, MA Out of the Blue Gallery
5/1 Western, MA TBA
5/2 Annendale-on-Hudson, NY Smog
5/3 TBA TBA
5/4 Quebec City, QB TBA
5/5 Montreal, QB Brasserie Beaubien
5/6 Toronto, ON Feast in the East
5/7 Buffalo, NY Sugar City
5/8 Detroit, MI TBA
5/9 Chicago, IL Situations
5/11 Minneapolis, MN TBA
5/12 Lincoln, NE Tr33 H0use
5/13 Denver, CO Glob
5/14 Salt Lake City, UT Diabolical Records
5/16 Seattle, WA TBA
5/17 Portland, OR Human Flesh Body World
5/18 Arcata, CA Richard's Goat Tavern & Tea Room
5/19 Oakland, CA TBA
5/20 San Francisco, CA TBA
5/21 Los Angeles, CA TBA
5/22 Tiajuana, MX La Caja Fuerte
5/24 Los Angeles, CA Live on The Unwrinkled Ear KCHUNG
5/25 Tempe, AZ TBA
5/26 Santa Fe, NM Radical Abicus
5/27 Oklahoma City, OK TBA
5/28 Austin, TX TBA
5/30 New Orleans, LA TBA
5/31 Atlanta, GA TBA
6/1 Asheville, NC TBA
6/2 Virgiania Beach, VA Back Bay Brewery
6/3 Washington, DC TBA
6/4 Baltimore, MD TBA

Uggh, so pissed I missed them when they played Charlottesville. Why VA Beach? Didn't realize anyone played VA Beach ....

The preview clip from the new record is fucking sweet.

FRIDAY, i have been jamming "truthers" on the regular, i am excited to see them play new stuff/hear the record

if you replace the Rs with Us, they are house louds

http://www.npr.org/event/music/476020413/video-horse-lords-hypnotic-truthers-will-blast-your-noodle cool video. listened to the record on my commute this morning and it is very good indeed.

fuck, vinyl is sold out!

i gotta listen a bit more to these guys, something isn't quite clicking with me. but i trust you guys.

fuck, vinyl is sold out!

preordered a couple months back. hope i am not forgotten.

and the first LP is surprisingly hard to track down these days

yeah I've had that on my list for at least a year now, impossible

i almost ordered the vinyl last night (said their were 4 left) but held off ... surely they'll have someone at the merch table on tour, yah?

they are playing with friends of mine about 50 feet from my store on the 3rd of may. gonna buy all the records.

yes i hit the atm just now in order to raid the merch table tonight. i might buy a t shirt if they exist. the last band shirt i bought was napalm death.

this rules

like, too good. i love it. can't wait to see them

^^^

they were so great when i saw them last year, looking forward to seeing them again in a week or so
they're playing a diy venue which seems a little weird but w/e

oh man, guess I am gonna buy some FLAC files here

excited

rules

V good.

OK, wow, the lossless version sounds great imo.

yes, it certainly does. listening now.

this is next-level, even better than Hidden Cities imo

drummer really shines on this so far

there are two!

at least there were when i saw them
one holding down the fort and the other one who did more intricate stuff and had at least one cowbell

ah that explains the intricacy I was grooving to, thx

two drummers on friday night, though the more-intricate one doubled on sax for "truthers." they are selling a t-shirt in the same color as the album jacket and it is gnarly in the cold light of day. psyched to wear to summer weddings or jury duty.

He played saxophone when I saw them last year too, & used the circular breathing technique that I see jazz dudes use. It dawned on me that he had probably been to official Music School but it's always possible he taught himself to be super awesome.

ha was just listening to this and then surfed to ilx and saw this thread was at the top so i'll just add to the chorus that it's great

if y'all don't know that circular breathing sax dude is Andrew Bernstein who has a couple of excellent albums posted in the current time-travel thread, well, now you know.

It dawned on me that he had probably been to official Music School

Goucher College, acc. to LinkedIn

this stuff hasn't fully clicked for me but imma go see em on thursday, hoping it'll all come together in a live + really stoned context. Max Eilbacher's old band Needlegun played maybe my favourite crazypants diy set ever, blew me away on just like a random thursday night show i went to cause my friends were opening. and this thursdays show is at the same bar. unfortunately the opening arent my friends cool noise band but some jazz skronk wankers... bleh

yeah i like Horse Lords but Needlegun was my shit

this riff \m/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKlpzSYhr0M&feature

my favorite needle gun set of the first iteration (mike, max, jack, gram):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw7vUyJlo3Q

are they big?

i'm not just asking in response to ums' post (which i understand is jokey) but i also have had other observations recently that made me feel like ... maybe this band is kinda big? or no?

or maybe they just hold a high opinion of themselves and that feels "big" from the outside.

interview makes them seem like cool smart dudes

appreciate their commitment to the unified band outfit

I have faith that Baltimore dudes can't get too pompous.

Sucks to see a good time workin class rock n roll band like Horse Lords putting on such pretentious airs after they got big

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, October 27, 2022 8:26 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

LMAO

The last time I saw them (prob 2019 iirc) someone in the audience commented they had clearly “gone to school” (had a formal musical education). You don’t get to be a circular breathing saxophone player and precise af drummer DIY-ing in your spare time. It’s not news that they’re well-schooled imo.

idg why this is a bad thing. Pretty much every great jazz artist revered here and elsewhere was well-schooled, too

yeah they tended to put forward some worthwhile ground-breaking stuff tho

i don't think max eilbacher went to a fancy music school. he was in baltimore noise bands throughout the 00s

circular breathing isn't so difficult. knowing what to do with lips & fingers thereafter is the tricky bit

wow

well this revive inspired me to listen to the preview track of the new record and it totally rules, which is all I really care abt

Their use of just intonation and irregular time signatures lifts this well above standard math rock. The recombination of elements is really clever and exciting to listen to.

There is certainly something to said about the rise of conservatoire trained musicians in indie rock, avant-jazz and all points between. But I think one of the most positive developments in 21st C music is when that training is combined with DIY approaches, so you're breaking down the artificial race and class inflected barriers between jazz, rock, noise, new music etc. HL are one instance of that and I'm all for it. Saw some of the members play some great free improv sets with the likes of Luke Stewart at Moers this year - they're totally comfortable in that world. Fuck genre! :D

y'know i just took a listen to these guys on spotify and they're actually tons better than i remember.
the inner curmudgeon got the upper hand, my bad. (reasons)
was my issue more with the credulous style of journalism? i can't remember.

Not having lyrics can be an advantage too: the band do not have to write anything on the nose or ridiculous. Music is just an object that acts as a nexus for the centre point of their communication with others. Gardner remarks that sound is a sort of abstract vector for this kind of expression, forcing more imagination. “We’re thinking about a new way to listen and forcing this kind of listening that’s more engaged with form and the abstract aspect of it, the experience of music. It puts people in the role of participants rather than just passive observers. It’s like we’re building this together.”

lol gtfo

New one out today, just finishing a first listen through this morning - it's phenomenal. I'd heard two of the tracks prereleased on youtube, but this works so well as a fully sequenced album. also operating just on a few hours of sleep thanks to world series game 5, but this seems to be a perfect state to take in their music!

Any other crowdfund backers get a message from them yet? I don’t want to be ‘let me speak to the manager’ on release day but it’s kind of disappointing not to know what’s going on there.

No message here. I agree with you a message by now would've been ideal ... seems reasonable to give 'em till Monday, I think, before asking what's up.

Complaining makes you a participant, not just a passive observer!

listening to the full album and OK this rules, I like it more than anything since their first album? and way more than Common Task, which I couldn't really connect with. something about the production, sound, and the way the parts all interlock is just perfect for me here

I should say, I like it more than anything since the mixtapes (which are incredible, go check them out if you haven't)

Re: crowdfund backers, from an email reply from Andrew Bernstein just now: “Pre-orders have been shipping this week and last week, so your record should be on its way.”

pic.twitter.com/eEvl1396sz

— Fritz Pape (@fritzpape) November 10, 2022

lol

just digging into this, dope so far

think i like this new one better than any Horse Lords I've heard previously. very very cool.

fuck yeah i'm digging this all bloopy bleepin guitar shit in a danceable ⌺/12.3 time signature

New collab release from drummer Sam Haberman: https://cachedmedia.bandcamp.com/album/radial

new album is awesome. love the acid house 303 in ‘mess mend’

cool guest mix of the Folkways catalog:

https://folkways.si.edu/playlist/peoples-picks-horse-lords

We might have embarked on this playlist—as others wisely have—with a theme to lend some cohesion to the result, but instead we chose chaos. The dizzying, impossible variety of music and sound that Smithsonian Folkways (and some smaller labels under their caring umbrella) has given the world ought to be experienced as a disjointed, disorienting maelstrom of pleasure, totally resisting any representation of its totality ...

love these guys but god are they insufferable. like just admit that you threw something together at the last minute

Nothing insufferable about that statement imo.
Started listening in bed yesterday and fell asleep, first three tracks I liked though :)

I don't get the obsession here with accusing these guys of being any more pompous than any other arty post rock band

Agreed, ESPECIALLY with a state as innocuous as the above

Statement of course

new live EP

https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-leipzig

live album out now

https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/as-it-happened-horse-lords-live