Company

the next release on band of horses' own label, brown records. company were hand selected by band of horses' ben bridwell. the individuals of the company were (and are) all-powerful and astute. in many cases, the knowledge that certain joys were simple fabrications of chance would have diminished their moral worth; to avoid this inconvenience, agents of the company made use of suggestion and magic. their moves, their manipulations, were secret. to get at everybody's innermost hopes and fears, astrologers and spies were employed. there were certain stone lions, there was a sacred latrine called qaphqa, there were fissures in a dusty aqueduct all of which, according to general opinion, led to the company.