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Introducing Ben Auld to the band on drums, Brown Horse began to make a name for themselves in the resurgent scene of their adopted hometown, Norwich. With the addition of Phoebe Troup in the summer of 2023 completing the line-up, Brown Horse made the short drive north to Sickroom Studios, where they spent four days recording with Owen Turner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs of \u003ci\u003eReservoir\u003c\/i\u003e are rooted in a country-rock tradition. While the band acknowledges an indebtedness to the turn-of-the-millennium alt-country sounds of Uncle Tupelo, Silver Jews, Lucinda Williams, and Jason Molina, the songs on the album also resonate with the preceding “Last Waltz’” generation of seventies folk-rock artists, as well as more recent works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loose Music","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50396770435403,"sku":"2169236","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50396771516747,"sku":"2169237","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Reservoir_4a16bde2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726485190"},{"product_id":"all-the-right-weaknesses","title":"All The Right Weaknesses","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrown Horse release their second album, \u003ci\u003eAll The Right Weaknesse\u003c\/i\u003es, on Loose. The group returned to Sickroom Studios following a multi-month European tour. Road tested, the band tracked these eleven songs in a whirlwind week of live takes. Building on the stark twang of their debut album, \u003ci\u003eReservoir, All The Right Weaknesses\u003c\/i\u003e sees an energised Brown Horse meld slacker-rock, folk, and alt-country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving off the back of a busy touring schedule which included sets at Green Man Festival, Latitude, and the main stage at End of the Road, Brown Horse’s second album is characterised by an intense energy born from night after night on tour playing full-band shows. As the band explain: “We’d been on the road in Europe for over two months by the time we arrived at the studio to start recording. We were pretty much constantly together, spending hours in the van listening to the same music, exploring unfamiliar places and playing shows almost every night. That was sort of the creative justification for playing so many dates ahead of recording, to find that level of coherence. We didn’t need to pay for rehearsal space - we rotated new songs in the setlist and learned them on our rare days off. We’d slept on floors and in construction sites, caught midnight ferries, driven a Ford Transit past incredible Norwegian fjords and been towed from a snowbank in the middle of nowhere by a man in shorts and flip flops. It was pretty cool to be that tuned into each other, and have that shared experience going into recording an album.” While the songs in ‘Reservoir’ took shape over years of intimate, stripped-back pub gigs, \u003ci\u003eAll\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Right Weaknesses\u003c\/i\u003e holds nothing back, building a yowling wall of distorted guitars, accordion, banjo and pedal steel, at once familiar and difficult to place. The songs are thoughtful and delicately arranged, but the record rocks harder than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loose Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51108161323339,"sku":"2239758","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51108159521099,"sku":"2239757","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/20000000265967_93f6523d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1737030307"},{"product_id":"total-dive","title":"Total Dive","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrown Horse return with their third album \u003cem\u003eTotal Dive\u003c\/em\u003e. Their strongest and most grounded work to date, \u003cem\u003eTotal Dive\u003c\/em\u003e showcases a new level of skill and assurance in the Norwich, UK band’s thoughtful lyricism and musicality. Leaning away from the playfulness and eclecticism of their previous works, \u003cem\u003eTotal Dive\u003c\/em\u003e sees Brown Horse step forward into the darkness with a cautious optimism. As they move confidently between searing noise and delicate reflection, they take time to note the beauty and agony of the mundane; the death rattle of a vending machine, headlights flashing in the eyes of a road-killed fox, the heather- pink of a winter sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new album is the clearest expression yet of Brown Horse’s unique sound: somewhere between the stark country rock of Uncle Tupelo, the raw intimacy of early Cat Power, and the haunted landscapes of Magnolia Electric Co., while embracing the self-possessed noisiness of alt-rock trailblazers like Built to Spill and The Breeders. Bolstered by the playing of Norwich drummer Ben Rodwell and the vocal harmonies of Leeds-based musician Neve Cariad, \u003cem\u003eTotal Dive\u003c\/em\u003e is the sound of a band coming fully into their own. These are songs inhabited by wide Norfolk skies, thousands of shared miles on the road, the noise of heartbreak and humor, and the echoing silence of long hours spent in strange in-between places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loose Music","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56371804012875,"sku":"R2116-0133","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56371804045643,"sku":"R2116-1785","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/20000000355800.jpg?v=1769188575"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/brown-horse.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}