#Horse Jumper of Love

[femaledonniedarko]

if u like these we should be moots :>

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for October 7, 2017; #147.

Lilys “Collider”

Heavently “Shallow”

Hibou “Valium”

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever “French Press”

Daysleepers, The “Mesmerize”

Astrobrite “Overdriver”

A.R. Kane “Haunting”

Deerhunter “VHS Dream”

Jackal Onasis “Runty Little Puppy”

Stellamaris “Digital Emotion”

There Is No Teenage Love “There Is Only Teenage Love”

Grouper “I’m Clean Now”

Horse Jumper Of Love “Nature” (demo)

Trementina “Child”

XO “Sweet”

Sadfields “Falling Apart”

Loveliescrushing “Valerian (Her Voice Honeyed)”

Soda Lilies “The Bees In My Stomach Are Dead And Getting Used To It”

Cosmicdust “Bird Cries”

Stargazer Lilies “Bathed In Blue”

Seasurfer “Fireworks”, “Tricolore”

Jesu “Sun Day”

Deluxe shoegaze, dreampop, and lilies.

[baesment]

Would you pull me a feather From your pillow - I want to dream like you

[speciouspessimism]

my Super Power is that you can give me any song and i can make it about the raven boys… trc playlist is currently 48 songs and there are page long descriptions to why they all Work somewhere in the depths of my texts….

[dustedmagazine]

Horse Jumper of Love — Disaster Trick (Run for Cover)

Photo by Pond Creative

Horse Jumper of Love’s second album blows out introspective songs into wailing crescendos. Guitars bristle, flare and dissolve into fuzz, while quiet, contemplative lyrics unfold in the hurricane’s unblinking eye. “Wink,” the first single, spools out in chilled post-rocking chords, drums kicking up dust in the long sustained intervals. The singer, Dmitri Giannopoulos, sings in a shrugging, self-effacing tenor, navigating twisty melodies with an unhurried, unbothered nonchalance. The song is a battering ram and a weighted blanket, equal parts brute force and solace.

The music has undergone a shift since Heartbreak Rules, from 2023, an album I liked a lot. That record was a mostly solo endeavor, just Giannopoulos singing songs he’d knocked out during COVID quarantine and John Margaris coming in late to play a few piano parts. This one is much more of a band effort. Margaris plays bass throughout, and James Doran drums. There are guest appearances from of-the-moment indie rockers including Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, MJ Lenderman and Ella Williams of Squirrel Flower. Though still morose and inward-looking, the songs bloom into sprawling, distorted, nocturnal flower. They are larger but very personal.

“Snow Angel,” for instance, establishes a slow acoustic strum, then blows it to bits with fuzz. The sound coils and uncoils, storming ahead with inexorable anthemic vigor, then turning inward on itself in wounded dissonance. “Curtain” strips back the Horse Jumper experience to flared electric chords and vocals. The song digs into the bleakest existential questions—the self, its relation with others, mortality — in clean, echoing isolation. Giannopoulos croons, “Do you think yours is the only point of view? Do you that think others haven’t done it, too? Did you follow that nasty rule? You wave that goodbye and they close the black curtain on you.”

The sound is mesmerizing, pitched somewhere between Polvo’s guitar-wrenching abstractions and David Grubbs’ surreal sung poetry and Bedhead but with more explosions. Ovlov comes to mind, too, in the tactile onslaught of distorted guitar sound. Yet the words are good, too, if hard to catch, as they bob up to the surface of guitar skree, then sink under again. “Lip Reader” has one of the disc’s most arresting images, in a verse that goes, “You were singing your song in the doorway/I could see you in the other room/like a lip reader from the other side/you’re from another side.”  The line between the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, is wavery and blurred.

At times, Giannopoulos recalls other, far more acoustically centered artists. The spare, stark “Word,” for instance, sounds a good bit like whispery, gothic Boduf songs. The trick he’s mastered, however, is hitching vulnerability to blaring, swelling, overwhelming guitar sounds. It’s not often that music this loud and distorted can break your heart.

Jennifer Kelly

[wormsdyke]

i love when songs just barely manage to exist. this song is playing but it has to tediously drag itself step by step through thick mud to get out there. songs that are so dense that their own gravitational pull stretched and slows them as they play

[whitelightwildflowers]

[faketwenty]

JUST KIDDING

dir. Ben Turok

[s4ds0up]

duster show

[evehaze]

[cursethrower]

There is a notion in your skull At least there's motion when I crawl Your elbow is sharp Against my ribs and mine is dull I have learned to start and stall There is nothing for me here

[femaledonniedarko]

[starryzzz]

sometimes i really hate spotify DJ because why did i just go from nicki minaj anaconda to horse jumper of love 🤨🤨

[marieslocket]

Really bad video of a horse jumper of love concert i went to back in october of 2023. Sick venue and after the show they were talking to some people in the crowd. The opener merce lemon was also super killer.

[whitelightwildflowers]

made up some disaster trick