High Horse - Shitty Things by TMI Top 5

There must be something in the water in Mesa, AZ as Billy and Dale Goodman (from The Necronauts) have teamed up with Mike Upsahl of Stereotyperider to release a seven song EP (under the name High Horse) of high-energy garage rock. Formed in early 2010, High Horse had only played one show before they hit the studio last July, recording the seven-song, self-titled EP. This isn't the 'dirty', in-the-gutter side of garage rock but rather the 'get the party started' sound of bands like The Fleshtones.

With the melodic hooks and sing-along choruses of each of the songs, one may not immediately notice how musically 'busy' this disc is. All three members sing (often in multi-part harmonies) while Billy Goodman plays crunchy garage-rock chords and angular rhythms that zig and zag around Mike Upshal's reverb-ladden Fender Rhodes and Dale Goodman's pounding backbeat. High Horse's music doesn't share much in common with The Necronauts' lo-fi, free-form indie-rock (outside of a shared pension for off-kilter song titles) as this twenty-two minute multi-layered EP is razor tight and sounds like the work of a larger band.

The band recently released the first video from the new EP for the song "Shitty Things" which was filmed using an iPhone and a couple of flip cameras.



The EP is available on CD and a vinyl 10-inch but there's no real need to choose a format. As Upsahl explains it, "We just slide the CD in a clear case inside of the 10-inch. The deal we have is if you buy the vinyl, you get the CD for free; and if you buy the CD, you get the vinyl for free. So either way, you're getting both."

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