Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On (Crystel Clear Vinyl)

Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On (Crystel Clear Vinyl)There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some of the coldest days in Chicago that year. With the heating off in The Loft to avoid sound interference, the band was bundled in multiple sweaters and sitting on their hands between takes. Working closely with musician producer Cate Le Bon (Deerhunter, Kurt Vile, Wilco) Horsegirl found

She now says she’s in a space where she’s trusting her instincts and her idiosyncrasies more than ever

The sort of reverberant

with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks

he extended a collection of rich

which culminates in one of the album's most transcendent moments

After moving to California from New York a year prior

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slipping into view with the arpeggiated lattice of New Ogi and getting into gear with the Morgan Geist-like techno-pop pitch of VW Violence and Never Enough

it resists genre

as Mendez prods at some painful experiences from his childhood and early adulthood

bike theft

this new one has an almost monolithic approach