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Band Of Horses

Things Are Great

    Band of Horses’ sixth studio album and first record in more than five years. Sonically, the album is a return to their earlier work and the kind of raw ethos that lies at the heart of Band of Horses. Emotionally intense, both on a personal and elemental level, on Things Are Great we find band founder Ben Bridwell more autobiographical than he’s ever been on record detailing the nebulous frustrations and quiet indignities of relationship changes and what a person will do to make things right.

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: The first Band Of Horses outing since 2016 sees the now streamlined outfit (having lost both a bass player and a guitarist since the last LP) in fine form, with woozy lite-country slides and perfect poppy melodies breaking through beneath the ever-recognisable vocal syrup of Ben Bridwell. As beautiful and wistful as ever.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Warning Signs
    2. Crutch 
    3. Tragedy Of The Commons
    4. In The Hard Times
    5. In Need Of Repair
    6. Aftermath
    7. Lights
    8. Ice Night We're Having
    9. You Are Nice To Me
    10. Coalinga

    Band Of Horses

    Cease To Begin

      Band Of Horses 2006 debut, "Everything All The Time" was a big favourite here at Piccadilly and so naturally we're very excited about this follow up. For a lot of reasons, "Cease to Begin" is the perfect title for this record. Not only do the songs themselves weave this theme through the record, but stopping and starting anew is also a reflection of the past year and a half for Band Of Horses. Though they worked with producer Phil Ek again, as they did on "Everything All The Time", much has changed between the fairly recent then and now. There have been band members who have come and gone, including Mat Brooke, who left the band to pursue other interests and his own band. For core members Ben Bridwell, Rob Hampton and Creighton Barrett, there has been a move from Seattle, WA to Mt. Pleasant, SC, a relocation that had been planned for some time so that they could all be closer to their families. And, close friends and family have come and gone-some far too early. Necessarily shot through with these experiences, the songs on "Cease To Begin" are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangements than the last record. It certainly doesn't disappoint.

      TRACK LISTING

      Is There A Ghost
      Ode To LRC
      No One’s Gonna Love You
      Detlef Schrempf
      The General Specific
      Lamb On The Lam (In The City)
      Islands On The Coast
      Marry Song
      Cigarettes, Wedding Bands
      Window Blues

      Band Of Horses

      Everything All The Time

        Folks, you don't need to buy any records by My Morning Jacket, Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev anymore, Seattle's Band Of Horses have combined all three and only gone and made one of the albums of the year! These are huge, emotive, yearning songs. The sound is reverb-drenched and lonesome: enormo guitars chime whilst Ben Bridewell whacks out his vocals like Perry Farrel's little, lost brother. OK, they sound very similar to M.M. Jacket, but there's a directness here that's exhilarating. The whole record flows, but there's some absolute anthems lurking amidst the drift and echo. It's a towering, beautiful thing.

        TRACK LISTING

        The First Song
        Wicked Gil
        Our Swords
        The Funeral
        Part One
        The Great Salt Lake
        Weed Party
        I Go To The Barn Because I Like The Monsters
        St. Augustine


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