Horsehands has solidified both a unique sound and a place in the Boston music scene through frenetic live shows and recordings while remaining somewhat of a well kept secret among the musician and record-collecting sect. This band excels in disassembling familiar musical tropes and regurgitating them out in frantic, confused, frustrated form. The fragmented song structures have a fluidity to them that helps separate their brand of rock music from some of the more angular post-punk groups. While there are some jarring twists and turns here and there, the overarching structural themes reign in the madness. Guitar fireworks give way to a circuitous and impossibly dense rhythm section, accented by vocals taken from the far reaches of pop weirdness. Everything in a Horsehands song has its place, which is surprising given just how much is going on at any given moment. Press Concerning "Snipers on the Stack" from their EP, Amble: "…[Horsehands'] contribution "What A Dish" has just about every key element of the band's DNA: dense and soaring guitar leads, heavy and proggy rhythm parts, wildly inventive song structures, and elusive vocals that seem taken from both human and extraterrestrial sources …" "genuinely exciting and unpredictable music which is nigh on impossible to pin down" |









