Horse Lords

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

when i saw them it was way more rawk

re: two drummers and sax above, and this should be in the thread anyway. I think this is Wildcat Strike off the first record (and drum-->sax switch around 4min).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58eEgyQ3rE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzHK4oo1GLI

great show

is that youtube ok to share?

i could have driven to mass or vt to see them this past week but i am old and have to job :(

you can share that video as long as you give credit like this:

VIDEO COURTESY OF Sam PunkrockHobbit Jem Hadge

it's all that he asks really. and if you want to see almost every great weird show in western mass over the last couple of years, check out his channel.

Thanks, will do!

yeah, tip appreciate, scott!

also, got my LP of this from the nice northern spy people today. came with an eye-scorching screenprint thing and looks boss.

unfortunately the opening arent my friends cool noise band but some jazz skronk wankers... bleh

It does seem like they could have used more help booking their tour. One of the places they are playing in the Bay Area is like, the worst place to see a show in the wanky-bad-free-improv no one shows up because it's boring places (as opposed to douchebro/overpriced drinks type worst places)

I'm a little concerned that the place they're playing in Seattle is way too small, given that the show will probably get written up in alt-weeklies as a can't-miss.

^^ more proof of my theory.

To be fair it's a rad space and Andrew Bernstein played there a few weeks ago but they might be underestimating their audience.

yeah, the band played this space in Oakland that I sometimes help my friends book when they toured out here last (two years ago?), but it can fit 50 ppl tops, and the friend who's on the lease would have had a major panic attack dealing with that many people and the "unwanted attention" that would attract as the space is basically a house.

they probably would have played at my store last year but i'm taking a break and the local music store across the street is doing regular shows. which is cool. i got a little burnt out on all the shows we had. the music store is in a HUGE old bank building with a big old safe and everything. two spots for music. the back for loud stuff and the main room with a zillion foot ceiling for quieter stuff. tony pasquarosa and pg six played that room 2 weeks ago.

my wife just rented the floor above my store though and i might use that in the future for music. it's 2000 square feet of space.

my friends neel (bromp treb) and ted, olivia, and matt (curse purse) opened for them here.

they were originally listed for a house show in Portland (I'm 99 percent sure), but have since bumped up to an appropriate/good venue.

they're playing a basement here on monday, which is likely to be way too small
although last year they opened for liturgy so they played a relatively normal venue (for liturgy)

coincidentally, Zs are playing here yesterday and today

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.”

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— 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