Welsh fivepiece Race Horses have announced they are breaking up. The Cardiff-based psych-pop band made the announcement on their official Facebook page, writing: "We are sorry to announce that we are splitting up as band. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported us, come to our gigs and listened to our music. We have enjoyed the past few years and are proud of what we have done together, but it's the end of [...]
It's something of a rotten January for great bands, as Race Horses are following Shrag into retirement : Hello We are sorry to announce that we are splitting up as band. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported us, come to our gigs and listened to our music. We have enjoyed the past few years and are proud of what we have done together, but it's the end of the road for us as a band. It is clear that, creatively, we are bound for different places. Sadly, [...]
Il Galles nelle ultime due decadi è stato foriero di ottimo pop, a partire dai Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci fino ai Los Campesinos! , passando per Stereophonics , Super Furry Animals e, perché no, dai Manic Street Preachers post-Edwards. Ora a rinverdire questa tradizione arrivano i Race Horses , quintetto di belle speranze che con questo Furniture giunge alla seconda uscita discografica, a distanza di un paio d’anni dall’acerbo esordio Goodbye Falkenburg . Se si dovessero scegliere un paio di nomi a cui accostare i Race Horses [...]
We asked some of our musical friends to tell us about their favourite album of 2012. We were hoping for something a little bit different, something new to discover and indulge ourselves with. We think we got it. Check it out for yourself below... Suuns Eric Chenaux - Guitar and Voice ; One record that I’ve found really interesting is Eric Chenaux’s “Guitar and Voice”; he’s a Parisian via Toronto, the record was recorded and mixed in [...]
My Year Abroad is taken from Race Horses forthcoming album Furniture, out 10th September.
Aberystwyth è una città di 15.000 abitante, nel mezzo del Galles. Tra la “gente di Aberystwyth” spicca il compositore Edward Edwards e pochi altri tra calciatori, DJ radiofonici e politici. Eppure, sulle rive del fiume Ystwyth si è formato il gruppo Race Horses, il mix perfetto di Duran Duran , Kaiser Chiefs, The Housemartines. Conosciuti come Radio Luxembourg , il gruppo è recentemente rinato sotto nuova forma, regalando un quantomeno inusuale incontro di New Romantic anni 80, britpop primi anni 90 a là Pulp [...]
Como he mencionado en anteriores ocasiones , me declaro completa y absoluta fan de Race Horses . Hace un par de meses platicamos con Dylan, guitarrista de la banda, y les compartimos el 13 que obtuvimos como resultado. Ahora nos mandaron un playlist que resume en 14 canciones lo que Race Horses disfruta de otras agrupaciones, pasando desde Velvet Underground y Dexy's Midnight Runners hasta Os Mutantes y Abba. El playlist es muy acogedor, así que seguramente lo van a disfrutar. El nuevo disco de Race Horses se llama Furniture y ya está a [...]
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On listening to ’Golden Falkenburg’ it was clearly very different to the band previous seen.
Hace dos años escuché Goodbye Falkenberg en Spotify y quedé convencida de que el ruido que hacía Race Horses en su primer material era algo que en verdad valía la pena. Este disco es redondo y lleno de canciones que no importa cuánto lo intentes, seguirán retumbando en tu cabeza horas después de que hayas dejado de escuchar a estos galeses. Furniture es el nuevo LP de Race Horses y seguramente la psicodelia seguirá dando para más. Por ahora les dejo las respuestas que Dylan Hughes envió para este 13. [...]
Het is al bijna weer twee jaar geleden dat we Race Horses live aan het werk zagen op het London Calling festival in Paradiso. "De band blinkt uit in The Kinks-achtige liedjes die boeiend blijven vanwege het strooien met spannende en slimme breaks," noteerde uw verslaggever destijds in al zijn wijsheid. Daarna waren we ze [...] The post Race Horses, zei hij in al zijn wijsheid appeared first on Apply Some Pressure .
Were we collectively, as a nation, to pinpoint the birthplace of a New Romantic renaissance, few eyes and fingers would fumble about for Aberystwyth, right? Well, that's where they probably ought point as Meilyr Jones' Race Horses have really come careening out the blocks on this, their second full-length. Furniture may not be the aural counterpart to your conventional matte black fireplace, nor mahogany chaise longue. No, with Jones' band of men (and now woman) reconfigured although in no way less merry, they've carved a fragile kinda indie LP the likes of which we've rarely beheld. [...]
Sep 8, 2012, 8:00am
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"Progressive/New/Physical/Ense mble/Music". That's how Meilyr Jones, lead singer of the Welsh band Race Horses, describes the sound they were going for with their brand-new album 'Furniture' due for release on 10th September. This record will be the follow to the group's promising pop-rock 2010 debut 'Goodbye Falkenburg' which saw play extensively during the last few years, going from support slots with British Sea Power and Fanfarlo, to festivals like Camden Crawl, Hop Farm, Tramlines, Latitude, SXSW to numerous appearances at buzz-band-machine White Heat nights at Madame Jojo's. Carolina Faruolo sits down with Meilyr to discuss the new release, recording sessions, concept [...]
Donʼt get me wrong, I love a bit of heart on sleeve singer songwriter angst, as too I am rather partial to wading through some good and heavy thought provoking, maybe even challenging, ʻseriousʻ music. I also get a little jittery without my regular fix of down home americana twang. Sometimes though I need a band like Race Horses to pick me up and stick a good dose of pure pop loveliness into my veins. This people they have done with the quite glorious Furniture . The title track struts and sways in with synths and crooning [...]
I'd like to start this review with celebratory remark for 2012 in general, and congratulate it in exceeding all expectations thus far. With the formalities out of the way, it's probably time to tell you how good Furniture by Race Horses really is, and why it's becoming incredibly hard to find flaws in music that doesn't need some music loving, frown-line strewed, self-entitled critic enjoying finding them. Furniture is a very good album. The result is probably that it will cement in the mind's of those aware of the [...]
Podcast #30 is available for your streaming or downloading pleasure. Catch a live broadcast sometime, Thursdays, 9pm on Plaza Midwood Community Radio . This was a really great week for music! Track List: 1) Satellite Stories Phrases To Break The Ice Anti-Lover 2) Yeasayer Fragrant World Blue Paper 3) Reptile Youth Summer Sampler Shooting Up Sunshine 4) Blonds The Bad Ones Gospel Kid [...]
When Cardiffian flounce Meilyr Jones and his freshly foaled Race Horses first released the rickety '60s aesthetics of Goodbye Falkenberg they proved the sort of profusely exuberant, joyously outré recordings we'd been missing for what had previously felt aeons. Thus both timeless and timely, with Dave Wrench at the helm the album's production values proved lovably quaint; its tracks masterfully succinct and sweeter than the richest pice bach known to the tongue. It's still all sorts of superlative, although aside from the appositely entitled Pony it has seemingly been shelved. Or at least temporarily [...]
Race Horses es, en mi opinión, una de esas bandas británicas (junto a Django Django y Alt-J) que pueden definir el sonido de Gran Bretaña hoy en día, así como en algún momento Blur o The Who encapsulaban a la perfección la postura y actitud de Inglaterra y sus alrededores. A pesar de que Race Horses llevan ya 3 años tocando juntos, y que en 2010 lanzaron su primer disco, Goodbye Falkenburg , aún no han resonado mucho (por razones que no encuentro fáciles de descubrir). Furniture es el [...]
Sorry about no new mix last week. We had snafus in both the audio and visual departments and in addition to other commitments, it didn't quite come together. Anyway, we're back this Friday with a lot of good stuff for you to hear, including a song by new favorite new band, Stealing Sheep; a rarity from the Blur 21 box set; new music from Chicago's Mazes, SF's Sic Alps, Welsh oddballs Race Horses, oddball oddball Lawrence's Go Kart Mozart, and some "classic cuts" from The Wedding Present, New Order, T. Rex and a tip of the hat to late astronaut [...]
A mix of streams and MP3s for your consumption from Birds & Batteries, John Cale, Julian Fulton & the Zombie Gospel, Menagerie, and Warm Speakers. Enjoy! Birds & Batteries - "The Golden Age of Dreams" from Stray Light out 8/7/12 Experimental indie pop out act out of San Francisco. This time they're channeling XTC. - John Cale - "I Wanna Talk 2 U" [...]
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