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There’s a cliche in the literary world nowadays of authors writing novels about the trials, tribulations and rewards of writing a novel. \u003ci\u003eTruth Or Consequences, New Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e is just as sickeningly self-referential, exploring the obsessive urge to create art of all kinds and how it turns into a cycle of imbibing real life experiences, then spitting them back out in whatever artistic discipline you happen to find yourself practicing. A kind of snake eating it’s own tail….but with the kind of self pitying pretentiousness that only folks who think they’re very clever indeed (that’s us) would want to impose on themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fat Dracula Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50425048596811,"sku":"2052256","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50425049743691,"sku":"2052257","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/SUGAR_HORSE_-_TRUTH_OR_CONSEQUENCES_NEW_MEXICO_-_FDR102_-_PACKSHOT_eae20a94.jpg?v=1726786119"},{"product_id":"waterloo-teeth","title":"Waterloo Teeth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaterloo Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is true demonstration of Sugar Horse's refusal to conform or sit still. A community-building, genre-hopping release, the EP sees Sugar Horse letting the good times roll. Recorded during the Christmas break at Small Pond studios, sleeping among the amps, the four-track record is the Bristol group's excuse to work with some of the coolest musicians on the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Pond Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50469798150475,"sku":"1166052","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50469798478155,"sku":"1166054","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6470fcdc-a894-4620-a64e-2bf7b7e10bd3_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727367790"},{"product_id":"the-live-long-after","title":"The Live Long After","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut LP from Sugar Horse, The Live Long After is now featured as part of Small Pond’s limited edition Black Label series on 12” black vinyl, available now. Recorded at The Nave, Leeds and various small rooms around BristolCo-Produced by Andy Hawkins \u0026amp; Sugar Horse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Pond Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50851067396427,"sku":"2232980","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Live_Long_After_5741454c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731849910"},{"product_id":"the-grand-scheme-of-things-3","title":"The Grand Scheme Of Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe monolithically heavy, uniquely mercurial UK quartet Sugar Horse are proud to announce their new album Grand Scheme Of Things, to be released 4th October via Pelagic Records. On Grand Scheme Of Things, Sugar Horse comment: \"This album was intended to be a sideways step. A move away from the kind of thing that is expected of us… if anything is at all. What I mean by that, is the songs are more direct. They take a much shorter amount of time to “get to the point”. We also wanted to make this one noticeably “less Metal”. While we love being a bit boneheaded and confrontational, we definitely wanted to explore the more melodic, song-based side of the band’s sound. Normally you’d see shortened song structures and more singing and think “Oh these guys are going for gold….they wanna get on the radio and make millions of bloodstained pounds.” Well…you’re very much entitled to think that if you wish, but it felt like more of a songwriting challenge than anything else to be honest. We’ve done the whole drawn out, endless Space Rock thing a good few times now and it would’ve been easy to rest on those laurels. Do something we’re comfortable with. Alas, that is not really the point of this band. We’d much prefer to make it difficult and take the long route.\" Formed in what is now considered to be the utopian dreamscape of 2015, the band grew slowly at first. Far from fully formed, but steadily gaining limbs, heads and vital organs. Finally, 2019’s DRUJ followed swiftly by 2020’s DRUGS saw them hit on a relentless stride of eclectic releases that simultaneously confused and entranced audiences. 2021 saw the band encamp in a former Lutheran church to record their debut album, The Live Long After, releasing it via Brighton’s own Small Pond Records. Publications such as The Quietus describing the record as “shift[ing] dispositions fluidly, taking elements of extreme aggression alongside floaty Post-Metal” and Echoes \u0026amp; Dust calling it “a monumental achievement”. The album took every disparate element that Sugar Horse previously employed and amplified them, while juxtaposing each next to each other, with genuinely unpredictable and exciting consequences. 2022 saw no relent from the band’s fast paced release schedule, as they put out an anthemic shoegaze single in 'Pictures Of Dogs Having Sex', followed swiftly by their collaborative Waterloo Teeth EP. A release that paired Sugar Horse’s terrifying eclecticism with guest appearances from twelve other artists in just four short(ish) songs. Each artist coming from a different area of the modern British music scene, whether that be world conquering post-punk bass lines from IDLES’ Adam Devonshire, heavy titans Conjurer and Pupil Slicer’s throat crippling wails, or a shredding guitar solo from Biffy Clyro\/Oceansizeaxe wielder Mike Vennart. 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The vast majority of people struggle everyday to feed, clothe and house themselves. Let alone receive adequate healthcare, schooling and workers’ rights.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We are, however, where all the world’s wealth is hoarded. We are at the centre of Empire. The people outside of this empire—those of the Global South—have had their resources extracted and their populations exploited by our own governments, with very little given back in return. This won’t go on forever. It will inevitably end, as all great empires do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We in The West have a choice to make in the meantime; either help create a new, fairer world, or let the greed of our ruling classes become the undoing of all of us.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first glimpse of new material from the quartet, ‘Secret Speech’ starts as Not A Sound In Heaven means to go on—a politically-charged wrecking ball of a song that smashes its way through the often unbelievable chaos and brutality of the 21st century with vitriolic malice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do you capture the machinations of the geo-political industrial war machine—and all the horrors that go with it—in the studio, without seeming trite or crass? 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