North Carolina's Band of Horses are a band of people I've always like without that liking ever being in danger of tipping over into full blown love. It's perfectly clear what they've always wanted and still want to do. Touch all bases of that long haired, loose limbed, idealist American Rock & Roll thing that might remind you of Creedence, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Allman Brothers, Black Crowes, Pearl Jam, Dinosaur. Jr, Mercury Rev, Grandaddy, My Morning Jacket and so on and so forth. I imagine you catch my drift of what you'll be getting here.
Latest album Things Are Great and that's a nice album title at a moment in time when things really don't seem to be particularly great at all is their first studio album for six years and doesn't really mark out new territory for them but continues along the same tracks they've been heading down for the last couple of decades.
There's something really determined about Things Are Great that I think I'll keep returning to. A resolve to maintain that feeling that you had when you were 17 yet keep on forging onwards as you make your way through your forties. It's a simultaneouly sweet and steely record. They continue to carry the flame.
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