{"title":"Horse The Band","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-natural-death","title":"A Natural Death - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis product is a Record Store Day exclusive title and is not available to pre-order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Natural Death\u003c\/i\u003e is about the futility and arrogance of creation and destruction, the overwhelming scale of space and time, and the brutal majesty of nature, the horror of birth and the beauty of death. Everyone who will ever live will die a natural death, and will soon after be forgotten for eternity. This album serves as a warning to the human race to stop taking itself so seriously, as we have seen the dire consequences of its actions in the future. You are nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorse the Band consists of five demi gods running from a haunted past they can't possibly remember. Formed on the mean streets of Los Angeles after the birth of the new millennium, the members of Horse began to create their exotic sound to fight the past and create the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50408450228555,"sku":"2189533","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/A_Natural_Death_999e23a5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726604355"},{"product_id":"the-mechanical-hand-2","title":"The Mechanical Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e2005's \u003ci\u003eMechanical Hand\u003c\/i\u003e fine-tunes Horse the Band's entire operation. Erik Engstrom's keyboard still guides these songs, and often recalls the mechanistic, gawky robot feel of '80s video game music. But Engstrom and Horse the Band recall the 1980s in general, too. \"Manateen\" is incredible. It starts out by ripping off the same tubular Duran Duran groove that's responsible for the Killers, but shifts garishly into an angular post-hardcore screech, like a noisier version of what Fugazi were doing at decade's end. Horse aren't finished. \"Manateen\" goes on to crash soft synth melodies into righteous hardcore, and despite these jarring parts and sounds, Mechanical Hand never sounds as fragmented as R. Borlax. The experiments continue. Arrows whiz by, men scream, and drawn swords rattle over the rolling snare of \"Heroes Die\"'s intro; it soon becomes a monolithic metal trudge. Shades of Iron Maiden, Brainiac, White Zombie, Converge, Dig Dug, and Mario Cart bare their teeth on \"House of God\" and \"Octopus on Fire\"; the keyboard stabs away, the guitars ring with something approaching anthemic or at least thickheaded glory, and Nathan Winneke's vocals go from yowl to growl to snark in the twist of an elbow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MNRK","offers":[{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50478631551307,"sku":"2013992","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Mechanical_Hand_a0526c51_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727487158"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/horse-the-band.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}