The COMRADELY OBJECTS in the album title refer to a study on the design of Russian Constructivism that the historian Christina Kiaer published almost 15 years ago. The objects or works presented here by the Horse Lords are intended to support collective and egalitarian ideals in the sense of the Constructivists, it is about the intensive handling of material, as the band puts it.
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On their fifth long-player, which was created after a longer live stretch in the rehearsal room in Baltimore, the Americans transport ideas from the Russian avant-garde into a rock scheme, so to speak. The Horse Lords play in the classic rock format, except that a saxophone replaces the vocals and the electronics set the tone in the drone. COMRADELY OJECTS, a temple of abstraction and texture discourses for an academic audience? From the very first moment, the band also gives their tracks a rhythmic drive that is able to catapult this music somewhere else.
The 14-second keyboard intro on “Mess Mend” paraphrases the opening the Happy Mondays chose for their rave hit “Step On,” over the course of the next four minutes the Horse Lords tangle their sonic elements in an ecstatic dance with Afrobeat references – until the electronics swallow the guitars towards the finale. In this dynamic, hardly any other band is currently able to exchange between construction and jive – with very intensive work in the microtone area, by the way, the pleasure in mantra and minimal music. Sorry, the picture book for horse lovers has to be here: A fantastic ride.
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