The City and Horses seems to largely be the project of one man, Marc Cantone, who appears to have started a musical career after his girlfriend left him for a Turkish chef. Which is honestly all I would need to know to start listening. Take heed, press release peoples!
Over the years, the band has grown into a five-piece, although it still all sounds delightfully intimate. Despite a slightly shaky lyrical start (“I love coffee and I love tea, I love the girls, the girls love me”), I Love The Girls turns out to be a gentle, joyful little ditty where the lyrics don’t matter quite as much as the way it all sounds.
There hasn’t been a great deal of interesting new jangle pop turning up lately, so this is certainly an enjoyable surprise. For some reason I expected a band called The City and Horses to be rather heavier than this and wouldn’t have paid them much atteniton. Instead, I got one of the most pleasant sounds of the year so far. And all because of a Turkish chef.
I Don’t Want To Dream will be released on March 2 by SVC Records. It’ll cost a mere £3 for digital download (320kbps mp3!) or £4.50 for one of those shiny disc things.
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