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Chanced upon Horse Lords at End Of The Road festival, instantly smitten and acquired this LP. It's thoroughly hypnotic and so easy to get lost in their multi-lateral grooves.
Favorite track: Law of Movement.
Horse Lords return with Comradely Objects, an alloy of erudite influences and approaches given frenetic gravity in pursuit of a united musical and political vision. The band’s fifth album doesn’t document a new utopia, so much as limn a thrilling portrait of revolution underway.
Comradely Objects adheres to the essential instrumental sound documented on the previous four albums and four mixtapes by the quartet of Andrew Bernstein (saxophone, percussion, electronics), Max Eilbacher (bass, electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar, electronics), and Sam Haberman (drums). But the album refocuses that sound, pulling the disparate strands of the band’s restless musical purview tightly around propulsive, rhythmic grids. Comradely Objects ripples, drones, chugs, and soars with a new abandon and steely control.
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released November 4, 2022
Mixed by Owen Gardner / Horse Lords
Engineered by Jared Paolini at Tempo House Studios (Baltimore, Maryland)
Electric piano on "Plain Hunt on Four" by Andrew Christopher Smith
Mastered by Heba Kadry, Heba Kadry Mastering (New York City, NY)
Lacquers cut by Josh Bonati, Bonati Mastering (Brooklyn, NY)
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