You don’t always know if the carriage is singing, but you do. someone That’s true in the group. Perhaps more than anything, their second year album, Phoneticsis happy to be fascinated through a childlike, unwavering, playful language that spins the chorus from every variation of “Da da da.” The trio, who moved from Chicago to New York between albums, entered musician/producer Cate Le Bon to organize their 2022 sound Modern Performance Version While increasing the absurdity in delicate places. But through eerieness and restraint, naked emotions shine. “It’s very mediocre to watch,” Nora Chen sings at the end. Whether the same words are repeated or intertwined, the horse girl will sit and want to listen.
1. Where did you go?
“Far” is the answer to the opener’s honorable question.Farara’s. Band members naturally hear tight knees with call and response hooks. The shortest song on the album, it presents the basic formula of Phonetics -It could have even ended around the 1 minute mark, but the spiked guitar outro adds even more fun.
2. Rock City
Critics call immediately Phonetics Adult records should consider “Rock City.” This is about a shepherd who has seen the same sun set on the same hill for 40 years. (Horsegirl’s median age is 21.) This is an interesting way to sing about the loneliness of getting older. When they lower the tempo, you can feel it too – the last last switch-up can get me every time, and I’ve heard half a dozen records.
3. In 2
In the interview, the band has I spoke Leaning on the “adorableness and emptiness” of the three playing together, they make space for “In Twos.” The sound is more downcast, and the lyrics are vaguely personal. They flesh out the songs with their lonely violins, running through each of the knives that repeat “and I’ll try it out” that is constantly sharpened.
4.2468
Phonetics It’s not a kid-like album as much as a record I remember It’s like being a child, and there are few songs like “2468” that have holes in the veil of memory. This song of dizziness and freewheel is driven by the same slightly dissonant violin, gradually overwhelmed by the trio’s enthusiastic performances, with Loewenstein’s bass thickening and repetition fascinating. It’s a bit creepy when a child flashback arrives like the most realistic dreams of an adult.
5. Well, I know you’re shy
The band focused on pop songcraft shines through “Well, I’m shy.” There’s also a bit of bitterness, “What happened there, I wish I was me.” And Lohenstein’s deadpan vocals are rare to hide her longing.
6. Julie
Here is definitely the early few, the emotional highlight of the album. But “Julie” is less about unrequited love than capturing deep-running emotions, regardless of how that love is distributed. It endures through early adult transitions. “There are so many mistakes in making/my mistakes with you,” sings Loewenstein with heartbreaking. The guitar itself is engaged in a kind of dialogue. One is stable and determined, the other is like being stabbed by a certain truth. And in the middle of an album full of albums Dadaswho would think could cause such bread.
7. Switch
Horsegirl returns to the territory of your subconscious on “Switch over” and defeats the same refrain from the activity you are doing to turning your mind. Ironically, undoubtedly intentionally, this is probably the most locked thing they can hear on the entire record.
8. Information content
At the same time, this is one of the most content and most meaningless songs of Horse Girl, but it’s Rosenstein’s unstable delivery that makes wordplay so enjoyable. “I’m translating my story into tones,” she sings, explaining the album’s unique linguistic logic.
9. Front Runner
That crude acoustic arrangement – the version we hear is exactly how it was written first – there are no songs on Phonetics It sounds like a group singing for each other. That playfulness begins and stops from the tension between anticipation and patience. The rest is pure dedication. Lowenstein and Nora Cheng live together, and “Frontrunner” came together at the end of Lowenstein’s awful day. “Morning you sleep/I can wait” and it solves. There’s always tomorrow.
10. Sports meets sound
The band attempts some new things with melody and rhythm, even if the experiments distract from the nucleus of the song. Although the outro has gained considerable momentum, cropping it gives the record a better, more concise runtime.
11. I can’t meet you
The album closes with mellow, engaging pop tunes that will soon open up to the audience. “Do you want to go home now?” sings Chen. “I’ll almost pass through the night/Sit on the floor now/And me and you” (That’s enough to make you reconsider the meaning of “I can’t” stand To meet you – do you see what they did there? ) Her mind wanders, and it seems she can’t shake off the same old songs she’s heard on the radio. Some of the songs above Phonetics You might also sound like you’ve heard them on the radio before, perhaps even in another decade. But they shine like new again and again.
