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HORSE LORDS MAY BRIDGE

Instrumental experimentalists Horse Lords return with their second single 'May Bridge' from their upcoming record Comradely Objects. The band makes powerful and intricate music that sits somewhere between no-wave, math-rock and post-punk, centred on complex repetitions and rhythmic grooves that are at once hypnotic and jolting. Although instrumental, the band describe their music as an attempt to make art political without use of words, "Conceptually, our music is always interested in the tension between the aesthetic, the political, and the material domains of art, and the political muteness of instrumental music. How can we imbue wordless music with a radical political message? The whole project of Horse Lords is an attempt to answer this question, and all of our decisions, musical and otherwise, are informed by it." 'May Bridge' is a cacophonous squall of saxophone, propulsive drums and their unique microtonally fretted guitar and bass, the song builds into an almost incomprehensible hive of noise that gradually subsides into elongated drones that sound as if the song is running out of battery. The new album Comradely Objects is set for release on RVNG Records on the 4th of November. -Toby Evans-Jesra

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