Blog: So Well Remembered

16 Horsepower - " Horse Head " from Hoarse [2001] Whenever I speak with fellow aficionados of 16 Horsepower, we can all agree on the importance of the crazed, drunken preacher with hellfire in his eyes coming out of frontman David Eugene Edwards, just as we can agree that this band has rekindled the fear of the Lord in our souls. But I never hear about the importance and soul-crushing weight of Pascal Humbert's low end: on Secret South 's opener "Clogger," the whole album starts with a massive, speaker-rattling bowed contrabass. It's [...]

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