Horse Lords
1601 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9
Baltimore Magazine called Comradely Objects, the jaw-dropping 2020 album from Horse Lords, “meticulously controlled chaos—a masterpiece of creative freedom, contrasts, and contradictions.”
With dizzyingly obsessive rhythmic energy, Andrew Bernstein saxophone, percussion, electronics, Max Eilbacher bass, electronics, Owen Gardner guitar, electronics, and drummer Booker Stardrum give frenetic gravity to an avant alloy of influences and approaches.
The band’s palette includes the mantra-like repetition of minimalism and global traditional musics, complex counterpoint, the subtleties of microtonality, and a breadth of timbres and textures drawn from all across the avant-garde. Echoes of late-70s No Wave, mathy post-rock, and insistent, iterative composers like Arnold Dreyblatt and Terry Riley ring through their restlessly musical ripples, drones, chugs, and hypnotic ascents.
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