Slowhandclap has today released their new single titled ‘Horses In Transit’. The guitars will definitely be the first thing that you notice, but, what really throws you for that perpendicular loop is how the rest of the band serenades around it. Not what you would expect, to say the least. But, it fits. It works in ways you would never expect, because this is a song you cannot guess. You can’t simply predict where it’s going, but, it hinders with a hook and collides with a solid sound and feel that takes it into your memory.
Lyrically dark with a point of light to aim to, ‘Horses In Transit’ is about life in transition. Moments in time you wish not to remember but will never forget because that’s how life lessons work. Poetry with purpose.
About Slowhandclap
Jumping out the blocks loud and snarling, Manchester’s Slowhandclap play hard and fast. Friends since childhood, the quartet spit out a rhythmic and brutalizing noise-rock venom, mish-mashing post-punk muscle and quaking synthetics for a melancholic realization of the modern social and political dystopia.
Reuniting with producer Samuel William Jones (Maruja and SLAP RASH) – the band return with immersive new single ‘Horses In Transit’.
Growing from skeletal beginnings into a muscular, noise-rock behemoth, it’s a track of winding structures and jarring changes of pace, heightened by freakish synthesizers, slugging basslines and circular riffs. It’s music that’s fighting back, that wrestles with itself, that howl for autonomy within both political and personal adversity.
Since reintroducing themselves with summer single ‘Disarm’, the band have played their first shows in London (with Stratford Rise) and Europe and sell-out a headline spot at Manchester’s YES (Basement). This builds on slots opening for some of finest new names in the noise-rock/post-rock space, such YHWH Nailgun, Ditz and Psychotic Monks
Meanwhile, they’ve earnt plenty of radio backing from BBC Radio 6Music (Introducing Mixtape ‘Track of the Week’, Emily Pilbeam, New Music Fix) and KEXP, as well early press support from grassroots’ champions at Hard of Hearing and Babystep Magazine.
Offering more on the track, vocalist/guitarist Sam Bullock says: “The lyrics to the song were written in a very transitory point of my life. Emerging from a break up and a subsequent dark period I started to feel a sense of great freedom and possibility. Though this grimly was met by the limitations of the world we live in that keep us from realizing our true needs and our potential. It’s about the innate freedom and desire of humanity and the economic circumstances, the crisis in housing and the state of unease in the world that often deprive us from realizing it. Always in transition and never arriving.”
Featured image by Morgan Smith.
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