#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

[whitelightwildflowers]

made up some disaster trick

[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

[tsukiglitch]

Home

(and pets I guess??)

The only thing I did,

that I didn't regret doing,

was taking you home with me.

Something happy after the last one!

So Yomiel has alot of regrets in the lost past years, but one thing he for sure didn't regret was definitely taking care of Sissel.

I am 100% sure Yomiel would have gone mad(or worse even) and plan the whole revenge thing WAY earlier if he never had met Sissel to bring him comfort. Since that mean he didn't have a Friend to talk with or see him and still make him Feel like a living person.

And that would have been pretty bad for Sissel as well, because he would never found someone who truly understands him too. And since he's still a fragile Kitten who's probably very hungry, he could die very easily, without the comfort of anyone. He would have been all alone.

Aka it could've been a bad time for everyone.

But luckily the man in red had his Son at that time, so everything's ended up (mostly) fine! :D

[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 💌💖💖🎀🌸🌸💌💕

[thatsbelievable]

[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~

[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

[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?