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Hold Your Horse Is – Forgive and Forget
0Fuck twee, let’s rock. Obviously I’m only kidding, but the mood of the moment requires things that are heavy, fast, and very, very loud. So it’s great to get some new material from Hold Your Horse Is, a band name that I still can’t decide is good or bad eighteen months on from first hearing them. Forgive and Forget is, whisper it, a little cleaner than some of their previous work, and possibly even a little more mainstream, but it’s no less enjoyable for it.
Bonus points for the video too, which features cameos from seemingly every band or artist from southern England in it, from Stagecoach to Frank Turner.
The band will soon to be getting to work on their first proper album. Their previous release, the Rammin’ It Home EP is out now on Big Scary Monsters. The band finish a tour of the UK today, proving just how timely I am in putting these pieces together.
Great British Hopes: Hold Your Horse Is
12 years ago
Great British Hopes features the very best in new British music. You know, stuff that doesn’t sound like James fucking Blunt.
I’ve spent the last 24 hours trying to decide whether or not Hold Your Horse Is is a good name for a band or a bloody terrible one. I’m still not entirely sure, but the more I think about it, the more it’s growing on me. The band come to us from the mean streets of Hampshire. So mean in fact that they rarely tend to produce decent bands.
Hold Your Horse Is are a very loud, very fast band with more than a little in common with those other unwieldy band name scamps Dananananaykroyd. Perhaps not quite as all over the place as that band, as indeed here each element has a little room to breathe. It’s rough and ready, yet the vocals, guitars and drums all get their chance to shine.
There seems to be a lot of these bands popping up at the moment. The aforementioned Dananananaykroyd seem to be at the forefront of it. The wonderful Pulled Apart by Horses are certainly up there too. It’s a fine line to balance a lot of noise while still sounding good. Hold Your Horse Is fit right into nicely with this lot, and it’s a fine stable (ha, I’m hilarious!) to be a part of.
The Everyone Runs Faster With A Knife EP is out now and available directly from the band for just three of your English pounds.
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