Horse Lords

they don't play them exactly the same every time, they discussed that in some interview. and having a weirdly tuned just intonation guitar probably doesn't hurt

yeah, i would expect as much—but still

saw them live, it was excellent

showed them to a friend via bandcamp

said friend is a drummer nerd who studied percussion in ghana and plays in an almost-famous neo-afrobeat outfit.

he listened to them for like two months straight, exclusively.

i am not “educated”

they are not a rock band to me but i love them

https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/the-common-task

yesssssss

HELL YES!

just preordered the everloving shit outta this

excellent excellent news

they're one of the many reasons I'm stoked for Long Play in NYC

The promo was in my inbox this afternoon. It’s good.

Hope I get to see them live again soon. It has been too long.

!!

BAGPIPES

seriously! still wrapping my head around this, feels like part of their continuum from the start and very cohesive but also some startlingly cool additions

deep horse lords

i had high expectations but my initial listen makes me think they've been surpassed

can't wait to get home and crank this at high volume!

this is great, of course

it's another one of these bands (like with Ahleuchatistas' Arrebato album) where I realise I don't really have an aversion to math rock when it's done like this.

i mean this is just wonderful, ecstatic energy and creativity. i love it

the last ~5 minutes of the closing track definitely has quotations of previous material. kind of a good trick for them to do

Saw them live a few years ago at a sit down venue and they had the bagpipes. I think they suggested to close your eyes (? memory’s shaky here, but people had eyes closed) and the bagpipe guy played while walked around the room. Some cool psych phasing going on.

Was supposed to see them tonight in bk but we're living in a nightmare so going to buy the vinyl/merch instead. Fucking awesome band and amazing album.

they made awesome shirts for the new record but they’re completely sold out on bandcamp :/

They already are on pressing #2 of the record I believe, they would re-up the shirts I imagine too if they sold out that fast. Especially as they aren't even getting to tour it for a while.

this is exactly the record I was hoping it'd be. definitely going to be cranking this a ton over the next few weeks of quarantine

same

also, horse lords twitter confirms new round of shirts on the way

Cool, figured. Hope you get one.

Listening to this for the first time right now and fuck am I grinning at how fucking great this is. This is what I need right now. This, and wine.

Oh yeah, so good.

WOW, this is fantastic stuff.

listening to this on weed in the dark last night was wild. It's like a science fiction movie

Our long out of print 2014 NNA Tapes LP Hidden Cities has been repressed! Available on Bandcamp starting tonight at midnight.

yo good looking out, just ordered it!

same!

original post otm

still can't get over the most recent one.

"integral accident" feels very "einstein on the beach" at times.

the mazey design thing on the album cover is a buncha Hs & Ls, right? Ls in the corner and Hs on the sides? right? this is a thought I had while staring at the album cover and pondering the design choice and listening to this. it's very good. "born under punches" works well on a playlist immediately after "fanfare for effective freedom" just fyi

https://i.imgur.com/NPZSk7Z.jpg

Ha I didn't notice that.

Whoa now I gotta go dig that record out. Listened to it heavily when I first got it, such a great band.

live set out

https://vimeo.com/466694019?fbclid=IwAR3ANC0vqlMBzHXbz7Dj_BXN3t4gV6Qqop4BjnEUzW5ieJser1LkeGVTwG0#t=4155s

weird, the link seemed to work earlier, but now i'm sitting down to watch the whole set and i guess it's gone

seems like this would be the place the footage will show up, if the festival folks decide to re-post it:

https://tuskfestival.com/archive/

in the meantime, i really enjoyed this:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyT3mMFUtDQ

sweet

huh, they've got some wacky stuff going on with their frets there, I see. reckon these lads have read a book or two about music theory and whatnot

that's good watchin

hell yes this band rules so hard

that is very cool

awesome, thanks

I'm a sucker for some mictrotonal guitar action. These guys, King Gizzard, Noura Mint Seymali, who else am I missing?