Friday, August 19, 2011

I Break Horses

Add Date: August 23 

Artist: I Break Horses 

Album: Hearts 

Label: Co-op/Downtown 

Genre: Rock, electronica, shoegaze 

Comments: The Stockholm duo I Break Horses is presumably named after a Smog song, but their music channels shoegaze titans like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, and it will immediately put them on par with contemporary acts like Memoryhouse or Zola Jesus. Maria Linden's dreamy vocals sound as if, untouched, they'd be quite ethereal, meaning that the reverb and tremelo effects--and the expert songwriting of Fredrik Balck--merely enhance this quality. Linden's voice is surrounded by the lush waves of sound that she composed, which veer from gorgeous, swirling electropop to dense shoegaze rock.

Hearts is a stunning debut--a great record throughout, but key in on tracks 1, 3, 8, 5 and 7.

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