The Quietus contributor Noel Gardner talks to Baltimore four-piece Horse Lords abouttheir process.
“Perhaps it’s a mistake to inform you that Horse Lords are doing something legitimately innovative and exciting with guitar music. Perhaps you have been burned before by such promises, finding instead a sound that’s timid and essentially orthodox. Perhaps ‘innovation’ as a musical value to its own end rouses suspicion: are there not thrills still to be squeezed from established forms? Perhaps the term ‘guitar music’, and the way in which it prioritises one instrument, is the problem.
Horse Lords, a four-piece band from Baltimore, would agree with that last hypothetical, I suspect. Their releases to date – three studio albums, the most recent being 2016’s Interventions, and scattered singles and cassettes – are hypnotic, fluid and vocal-free: rhythms and tones achieving trancelike effect through repetition and discipline.”
Horse Lords perform live at Rewire 2017on Friday, 31 March. Watch the video for their incredibly hypnotic single ‘Truthers’ belowand find out more about theirRewire 2017 performance at: Horse Lords.
Rewire 2017 Festival Passes (€65) and Day Tickets (€27.50) are available at:Tickets.