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RVNG, an imprint that writes some of the smartest hype stickers and one-sheets in the business, describes: “The album’s twelve pieces are layered and interwoven, tonally and rhythmically complex––moiré-like patterns of interaction and tessellation that play out for both mind and body, full of sonic warrens with an inescapable groove. An electrifying leap forward for the band’s shared language, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! aims to liberate the listener into a spiritual, ecstatic, and utopic dimension of sound.”
To which we might add, to us Horse Lords and their musicality always felt akin to Henry Cow, Art Bears, the Recommended catalog.
And there may be regional American historic antecedents too: the rhythmic and melodic complexity of Richmond’s Orthotonics and one of our favorite Downtown acts V-Effect, which featured Rick Brown, Ann Rupel, and David Zonzinsky. Both of those projects involve humor, shronk and politics alongside complex rhythms. Two of our favorite bands from the 1980s! Go Rift Records!!
We loved Horse Lords live album, As it Happened: Horse Lords Live (RVNG 2024), which doesn’t involve any of the vocal elements presented on this new LP, though it does begin with one of the greatest introductions to a live record since Kiss Alive! by Jacques Palminger’s “bam, bam, bam,” followed by a very long description in German.
These folks are really good at sequencing their albums. We are album people, so grateful for their care.
A genuine leap forward on this new album, while still maintaining their punctuated rhythmic sensibility and unique tuning systems. Beginning with what we take to be their first use of (here processed) vocals (again, think Dagmar Krause!!) this is a fantastic addition to the Horse Lords discography!
RVNG, an imprint that writes some of the smartest hype stickers and one-sheets in the business, describes: “The album’s twelve pieces are layered and interwoven, tonally and rhythmically complex––moiré-like patterns of interaction and tessellation that play out for both mind and body, full of sonic warrens with an inescapable groove. An electrifying leap forward for the band’s shared language, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! aims to liberate the listener into a spiritual, ecstatic, and utopic dimension of sound.”
To which we might add, to us Horse Lords and their musicality always felt akin to Henry Cow, Art Bears, the Recommended catalog.
And there may be regional American historic antecedents too: the rhythmic and melodic complexity of Richmond’s Orthotonics and one of our favorite Downtown acts V-Effect, which featured Rick Brown, Ann Rupel, and David Zonzinsky. Both of those projects involve humor, shronk and politics alongside complex rhythms. Two of our favorite bands from the 1980s! Go Rift Records!!
We loved Horse Lords live album, As it Happened: Horse Lords Live (RVNG 2024), which doesn’t involve any of the vocal elements presented on this new LP, though it does begin with one of the greatest introductions to a live record since Kiss Alive! by Jacques Palminger’s “bam, bam, bam,” followed by a very long description in German.
These folks are really good at sequencing their albums. We are album people, so grateful for their care.
A genuine leap forward on this new album, while still maintaining their punctuated rhythmic sensibility and unique tuning systems. Beginning with what we take to be their first use of (here processed) vocals (again, think Dagmar Krause!!) this is a fantastic addition to the Horse Lords discography!