HORSE LORDS

RIO/Avant-Prog • United States

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Horse Lords biography
A Baltimore-based outfit HORSE LORDS - founded in 2010 by Andrew BERNSTEIN (saxophones, percussion), Max EILBACHER (bass, electronics), Owen GARDNER (guitars), and Sam HABERMAN (drums) - have tried to work intentionally for creating their individualized sound experiments blended with authentic rock, classic, African folk or Appalachian musical traditions filled with polyrhythm and complexity. Since 2012 they have released a couple of albums (digitally downloadable, cassette, lp, or cd-based) on their own, whilst gigging around US or EU actively.

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HORSE LORDS discography

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HORSE LORDS top albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

3.50 | 4 ratings

Horse Lords
2012

3.20 | 5 ratings

Hidden Cities
2014

3.75 | 4 ratings

Interventions
2016

4.53 | 11 ratings

The Common Task
2020

3.83 | 6 ratings

Comradely Objects
2022

HORSE LORDS Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

4.00 | 1 ratings

Live in Leipzig
2023

4.00 | 1 ratings

As It Happened: Horse Lords Live
2024

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HORSE LORDS Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, EP/LP, MC, Digital Media Download)

0.00 | 0 ratings

Mixtape Vol. 1
2012

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Mixtape Vol. 2
2013

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Mixtape Vol. 3
2014

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Mixtape IV
2017

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Studio Album, 2020
4.53 | 11 ratings
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The Common Task
Horse Lords RIO/Avant-Prog

Review by Bj-1
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Horse Lords is a very interesting band to say it the least, their music is based around micro tonality, polyrhythms influenced by African folk music, often with a very distinct krautrock groove going on. There are usually different confluent rhythms and melodies performed by each member, but they lock in so hard over the drum groove (by steady-as a-rock drummer Sam Haberman) creating a very hypnotizing effect, that can remind of King Crimson's interplay with polyrhythms, with a great emphasis on percussion to get a good drive to the music. The guitar and bass are tuned (or rather, wholly re-fretted) to play in just intonation and occasionally gives of a droning sound not unlike a bagpipe (which is also featured on the third track) that might be unusual at first but they quickly start to form interesting new melodic figures that's actually quite soothing and captivating, but still intense and challenging.

Andrew Bernstein, who is the bands saxophonist and second percussionist, is also impressively capable of playing along to the intonation from the strings and provides some really mind blowing moments on this record, notably the sax solo section in the second track 'Against Gravity'. Next level stuff right there, and the following guitar solo in that track sounds like pure electricity, for the lack of a better word. With these five very intriguing tracks Horse Lords have probably delivered their most polished album to date and should especially be checked out by anyone into the post/math/avant side of music. Stunning musicianship all around, if you like this make sure you check out their live performances too. One of the tightest bands around now. Highly recommended to adventurous listeners!

Thanks to dAmOxT7942 for the artist addition.