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Artist: Pulled Apart By Horses
Title: Pulled Apart By Horses
Label: Transgressive
Genre: Hard Rock
Bitrate: 224kbit av.
Time: 00:35:46
Size: 60.47 mb
Rip Date: 2010-06-30
Str Date: 2010-06-21
01. Back To The Fuck Yeah 2:40
02. The Crapsons 2:14
03. High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive 2:54
04. Yeah Buddy 2:26
05. I Punched A Lion In The Throat 3:14
06. I've Got Guestlist To Rory O'Hara's Suicide 2:19
07. Get Off My Ghost Train 3:26
08. Meat Balloon 3:25
09. Moonlit Talons 3:26
10. The Lighthouse 2:16
11. Den Horn 7:26
Release Notes:
If a band is an intense live experience, it’s usually difficult to
capture such intensity on record. If a band’s live show is so mental
that injuries are par for the course, then it’s something akin to
capturing lightning in a bottle. In other words, in can’t be done. Or
so you would think.
These noisy Leodensians, Pulled Apart By Horses, faced that exact
problem when recording their debut album. The quartet are well known
for their live output, but so far only snatches of that brutality have
been heard on record. This is all set to change with the release of the
self-titled.
Over these eleven songs (six new, five old), the group let loose.
They’re not the kind of band to turn it up to eleven, preferring
instead to blow up the stereo with their racket, also wrecking the
house and scarpering to leave others clean up their mess.
It’s that kind of record, one that barely lets up throughout. The word
‘restraint’ may as well be completely foreign to this lot. The speed at
which their songs are played rarely varies from breakneck. For all
their hardcore tendencies, however, there is a pop band in here just
dying to get out - case in point is the superlative ‘Yeah Buddy’,
packed full to the bursting with hooks and little nuances that demand
repeated listening. All in two-and-a-half minutes, by the way.
Yes, there’s that too. There are some moments here where it seems the
band have ADHD. They don’t dwell on ideas unless they know it’ll pay
off - and when they do, the effect is only enhanced, like on the
crunching closer ‘Den Horn’, which starts out with a doom-laden bass
riff from Robert Lee, before everyone piles in and the song transforms
into something rather reminiscent of Led Zeppelin, an absolutely
monstrous riff becoming its focal point. Said riff is repeated to
within an inch of its life, forming a sort of coda for the album - but
such repetition results in a brilliant finish.
Kicking off with ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’, ‘Pulled Apart By Horses’ is
an onslaught of noise, thunderous drumming, ear-splitting vocals and
those riffs. The guitar duo of Tom Hudson and James Brown drive the
band, and they sound like they’re having the time of their lives doing
so. Their best song remains ‘High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive’, but I
say this after two weeks of solid listening. It was given a run for its
money, make no mistake.
The intensity is most definitely there on the album, then. At the same
time, it manages to sound clean and precise, thanks for that going to
James Kenosha, who’s produced just about every up-and-coming Leeds band
in the last three years. He’s done another fantastic job - but the band
have also delivered, and they’ve delivered in spades. It was unlikely
that the record would turn out to be underwhelming, and it delivers on
the promise generated by previous singles. Indeed, it’s slightly
overwhelming in places, but then that’s always been the best thing
about Pulled Apart By Horses - they don’t pull any punches, and they’re
so much better for it.