Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance - VINYL LP

Gold Motel - Summer House [VINYL LP] date 11/30/2010

There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January- the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some of the coldest days in Chicago that year. With the heating off in The Loft to avoid sound interference, the band was bundled in multiple sweaters and sitting on their hands between takes. Working closely with musician/producer Cate Le Bon (Deerhunter, Kurt Vile, Wilco) Horsegirl found focus and intimacy in the studio that can only arise when it's simply too cold to step outside. Abandoning the heavysaturation and character studies of Versions of Modern Performance, Le Bon leads them into new, bright, clear, sonic territories that highlight the inventive nature of these new songs.After playing together for four years, Horsegirl explores the limits of the trio configuration within Phonetics On and On- what if instead of filling out songs with distortion, they utilized the expanse that the three of them didn't occupy? This question seems to be the motivating force behind the record, and the songs are a testament to experimenting with space and texture while maintaining a pop song at the core. New tools help bring this world to life; violins, synths, and gamelan tiles are all woven into the record with complete effect.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 from Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack. In the deepest depths of the Pandemic, with a relationship in it's ending, Mac Cormack recalls sending a text to his therapist InchI'm not meeting with you every week just to hang out,Inch the bilingual musician wrote. InchJe veux que ça saigneInch-for the work to Inchbleed.Inch To mean something. The next time they met, his therapist explained InchThat message you sent me? You were really sending it to yourself. You were taking a decision.Inch That decision-to move forward, to change and have the courage to love yourself-is the journey of the past two years and also of Solo, which gleams and shivers and pulses with the heartbeat of an artist in beautiful evolution. A softer album than his debut LP Now (2019), it is nonetheless riven by the fear and flood of disappointment that marked these recent years-and the singer's childhood.