NEW RELEASE:
Star Horse || Devour EP
Sweden’s Star
Horse has released a third EP from the 2012 recording sessions that produced
last year’s Crush and this year’s Lust, two very fine outings in a rather
classic shoegaze mold, with vocals delivered in gentle, almost hushed tones by
a wonderfully complementary pairing of male and female voices
The new
release is called Devour. The record
starts with a majestic track called “Hope To Feel A Hand”, shaking the
established sound up a bit by opening the new EP with a brief passage of pure
synth polyphony, a melodic synthesizer hook augmented by delayed stacatto
pulses and set against expansive sweeps. The synths are quickly punctuated by
sparse booms of percussion, and then cascading guitar chords and chiming
melodic guitar counterpoint open the sound up to a practically symphonic level
of grandeur before the vocal even starts. An auspicious beginning to a four
track set that concludes with “Darkness Is A Color”, a fully reverbed but
otherwise relatively stripped-down affair that leans hard on simple power
chords and may resonate well with fans of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Devour provides a worthy cap to a strong
trilogy of EP releases.
Devour has been given a glowing review on Backseat
Mafia and can be streamed in full on Soundcloud. The EP can also be
streamed and purchased either as a download or limited edition CD on Bandcamp.
The band
accompanied the release of the EP with this video for “Hope To Feel A Hand”:
