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New album "Cease to Begin" hit stores October 9th!

Much love,
The Horses

ps: buy in it vinyl from the Subpop store, and you'll get a coupon to download the entire album online!
posted 6 months ago
biography
Achieving musical transcendence is a tricky feat, almost definitively. If it happens at all, it happens naturally and perhaps nobody knows that better than Seattle, Washingtons Band of Horses. Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and guitarist Mat Brooke formed Band of Horses in 2004, after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissas Wierd. Carissas Wierd trafficked in sadly beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor.

And, Band of Horses rises from the ashes of that well-loved band.

After playing music with each other for over a decade, Bridwell and Brooke picked up together again when Bridwell began fleshing out his compositions post-Carissas. It was really just a natural thing we started doing, explains Bridwell. Buoyed by Bridwells warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which strangely channel a dichotomous blend of Wayne Coyne, Brian Wilson and Doug Martsch,) Band of Horses woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing and hope. At times raggedly epic (The Great Salt Lake) and delicately pensive (St. Augustine, Monsters), Everything All the Time is an album pain... (+) expand
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defianceu (level 12) wrote:
at 03 July 2009 8:18AM
Great Sound, Great Music!
genetrixx (level 6) wrote:
at 01 July 2009 1:14PM
Great songs!
No One's Gonna Love You - the best one so far ...
Congrats!
Aslanswake (level 7) wrote:
at 23 June 2009 10:37AM
oh i just looooooove the music:)
corykays (level 1) wrote:
at 16 June 2009 3:09PM
Detlef Schrempf is amazing in every aspect...from the incredible vocals to the homage paid to the greatest basketball player of all time.
ilikewinter (level 8) wrote:
at 12 June 2009 10:26PM
Oh, whoa! It just started playing Great Salt Lake- where I live now! Huh. Crazy coincidence.
ilikewinter (level 8) wrote:
at 12 June 2009 10:24PM
Aw, St. Augustine is one of my favorite little cities in my home state.
xcocox14x (level 9) wrote:
at 28 May 2009 3:51PM
is there a ghost
an amazing track i have loads of your stuff in my itunes i listen to st augustine in my playlist before i go to bed : )
lemonzested (level 8) wrote:
at 25 May 2009 11:19PM
I first heard your music in 07 driving through BC couldn't have been a more fateful combination....love it..
Gomi (level 7) wrote:
at 22 May 2009 2:24PM
We love your music. Beautiful
ROBLOBSTA (level 11) wrote:
at 21 May 2009 9:44AM
The funeral that is
ROBLOBSTA (level 11) wrote:
at 20 May 2009 1:55PM
did Kid Cudi use this for his song The Prayer?
DonJon (level 7) wrote:
at 20 May 2009 12:07PM
Sorry but i am gonna write to u guyz again! Very Epic and amazin rock.. I am flying!! I am a fan:) !
DonJon (level 7) wrote:
at 20 May 2009 12:01PM
Uuuuuh i love this music! ;D Very sweet ...
tyyyy4 (level 10) wrote:
at 18 May 2009 4:45PM
very nice
banx (level 12) wrote:
at 17 May 2009 7:26PM
<3 how monsters matches my footsteps whenever I'm listening to it! :)
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