#disaster trick

[baesment]

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

[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

[tuuneoftheday]

Horse Jumper of Love - Snow Angel

[knightofleo]

Horse Jumper of Love | Wink

[tizeline]

Sorry, he's an only child, he never learned how to share </3

[matchstique]

Tmnt Trick or treat exchange for @phin-dicated !

Hosted by @rottmnt-secret-gifting

Something featuring the disaster twins! This was tons of fun to do, I hope ya like it!

[pasteilian]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

Joined the Halloween gift exchange @transformersandturtles was chosen for me hope you enjoy!! 🍭 🍬 thanks for hosting @rottmnt-secret-gifting 💌💖💖🎀🌸🌸💌💕

[indieyuugure]

I participated in @rottmnt-secret-gifting’s challenge. I was asked to make a gift for @thefruityblueone of the Disaster Twins being silly, lol, I hope you like it :]

Leo is totally a video game cheater.

[triona-tribblescore]

HAPPY (early) HALLOWEEN!!! :D <3

I joined @rottmnt-secret-giftin's secret halloween gift exchnange! (tysm for hosting it was so fun~ )

This is for @markdamien22!! I hope you like it!! :D <33 your promt was so lovely I had such a chill time making it~

[thatsbelievable]

[gejnialne-arty]

(What's that? A rare instance of disaster twins spending time together and getting along?? Quick, take a selfie before the moment is gone!)

Some classic disaster twins with positive, fall vibes for @atomicmonkey1122 hope you like it! :D It's part of @rottmnt-secret-gifting exchange!

Also, the selfie in question under the read more!

[kylejsugarman]

love how almost every dilemma in breaking bad ended with walt going "thank god we made it thru unscathed thanks to my intellect and business acumen" while jesse is off to the side like comically injured and saddled with the kind of trauma that makes iconic literary careers

[essektheylyss]

Huge fan of the fact that, per the new Nein art, Caleb now has multiple book holsters, which means he has to wake up and choose between chest holster and thigh holster everyday.

It fully gives off the impression of this man standing at his wardrobe every morning picking out accessories like, "Hmm, how cheeky am I feeling. How likely is it that my boyfriend shows up."

[bettertwin1]

WAIT WHAAAT I WANNA TRICK OR TREAT !!! 🗣️

🎃 TRICK !

LEO AND YOU HAVE A STARE DOWN. HIS EXPRESSION REMAINS COOL, CALM AND COLLECTED BEFORE HE GRINS AND TELLS YOU TO WAIT HERE. WHEN HE COMES BACK HE IMMEDIATELY GRABS YOUR HAND AND GIVES YOU A SINGULAR SOGGY FRY. THERE'S MOLD ON IT.

[DOUBLE ROLL! 🎃 TREAT !]

AFTER YOUR CLEAR DISGUST, AND A FEW ONE SIDED LAUGHS FROM LEO, HE GIVES YOU GUMMY CANDIES. ONE IS IN THE SHAPE OF FRIES...IS HE TRYING TO RUB SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS?

[msfcatlover]

So. Did you know there's a backstory to Dick's mullet?

Because there is.

Mirage convinced Dick to let her restyle him while she was impersonating Kori. Which he went along with, because Kori had been incredibly depressed for the last several weeks and nothing Dick said or did seemed to be helping her. Dick had pretty clearly hit the point where he was willing to do just about anything to make her happy again.

Which I know doesn't even begin to compare to the many other ways Mirage took advantage of him (trust me, I just read it,) but has made me hate the mullet jokes now, because that was not Dick's choice.

(I'm sure it's just a coincidence Dick's hair & costume came out of it looking a lot more like the future!Dick Mirage was pining over. Contrasts between future!Dick & the classic Discowing Dick was wearing in the arc right before this one below the cut.)

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Here's future!Dick...

....Aaaand Discowing.

Obviously, she somehow magically grew his hair out several inches. But even beyond that...

Look at the stripe shape & placement on the new suit, lining up with both future!Dick's stripes & his mesh armbands.

Look at the glove shape, going from a segmented gauntlet to a single elbow-length piece with a curved upper edge.

While Dick's boots are considerably less dramatic than his future self's thigh-highs, they are still much more strongly emphasized in Mirage's version of the costume.

While future!Dick has the diamond on his abdomen like Discowing, future!Dick's costume has much less detailing around his abdomen.

Discowing also isn't the one with a utility belt. A belt which just so happens to have the same insignia as future!Dick's shield. Weird that.

While neither of the prior versions have the little glider-cape, I would like to note it's something future!Dick probably could've gotten a lot of use out of, given the way his sidekick usually carried him around.

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So anyway, I have gone from being kinda tired of the mullet jokes to actively disliking them. Less jokes about the mullet, more jokes about the rat-tail please.