Dead Horses – Sunny Days (LP/Digital)
1 Can’t Talk, Can’t Sleep
2 French Touch
3 Macabro
4 Hobo Talks
5 The Cross
6 OD
7 Disappear
ORDER LP/Digital from Bandcamp
ORDER LP via Big Cartel
out November 11th 2022
When Dead Horses burst on the scene with ‘Ballad For Losers’ in 2017 directly from the acid-induced foggy lands of weird Ferrara they fooled everyone from the get-go and now they are back with the aptly titled ‘Sunny Days’. These characters were here to stay, unique, oblique and oblivious. Watching them live reminds you of the highs and lows of life, a train ready to derail at any curve, literally duct taped together, that suddenly arrives on the plateau, shining in the horizon. This is when it’s important to not blink, because mark my words, you might miss the rapture, even just a minute of pure forceful magic, where everything comes together, the peak and the ecstasy hand in hand.
Their new record is once again an incredible mix of primitive-punk, Gun Club marshlands, country sadness and acid-folk that sways from the rays of light of the Vaselines to the dawn comedown of the Meat Puppets.
In <acquanonpotabile>’s words:
A music journalist on the new Dead Horses record would write: a concentrate of early swampy grunge, mixed with the Californian folk psychedelia of the 60s and the folk-blues of the Appalachians, with a tune that even Piero Ciampi may have written.
I am not a music journalist so these are my words: sweet and sad songs and soundscapes that embrace you and transmit human warmth to you. This is what music should be for, to warm you up, to excite you.
The Dead Horses do all this naturally, they are three but when they play they turn into a ghost horse that gallops randomly around the Po valley looking for a route towards the Appenines.
A real record, to be listened to in front of the fire, this winter will be cold, your bills will skyrocket and everything you do for a living will lose importance.
