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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.
credits
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)
Design by Will Work For Good
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this album is the justification for the hundreds of hours this year alone i have put into listening to albums. this record has so much versatility, it could be very legitimately used as background noise, or it could be a full-blown story that takes you down many winding paths of tension and emotion. the only difference between these two scenarios is whatever you wanted this album to be. if you havent already, please let this be the reason that you check this album out :3 kaycs
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steady grooves with the sax of josh johnson dancing all over it. and when he takes a break, jeff slides in with something interesting. anna is a rock keeping everything together. the drumming is just perfect. listening to this enhances my life... i work to this, i drive to this, and i play it in shared spaces. lee
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After years of only have these sessions on a scratched unmixed CDr it's a sweet surprise to hear them loud and clear the way Steve and the band intended. Mount_Mourn