Horse Lords - The Common Task If you aren’t familiar with Baltimore’s Horse Lords; up until this point, they have been positioning themselves as just one of many instrumental projects (if not a promising one) that pulls its motivation from the experimental and noise rock pioneers that came before them. Whether it be Terry Riley, La Monte Young or noted inspiration Glenn Branca, they have helped to carry the torch of those eclectic musicians who in the past were relegated to the shadows of the music press but nowadays can be respected outside of their outsider traditions. Branca himself often advocated for those talented artists who were either too weird or too unsuccessful to get anywhere, acknowledging that it would be the following generations that would discover and champion their music. Horse Lords define that sense of artistic curiosity, slowly fine-tuning their sound over time while simultaneously attempting to push off in different directions. While on2012’s self-titled debut...
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