The Horn: Individuals Like Us

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The Horn’s debut album Individuals Like Us is lastly right here together with new single, Addicted To Love.

Because the title suggests, there’s the theme of the frequent human expertise that runs all through The Horn’s debut album. Spanning coming-of-age narratives, exploring private insecurities, observations on the world at giant, and extra common ponderings on life. The document is all about discovering connection, solidarity, and mutual respect via what the band love most of all, music.

Individuals Like Us contains all these hanging releases, every of which strike the stability between thought-provoking songwriting and catchy indie-rock.
Take for instance their first launch, Ardour, which was resurrected from The Horn’s founder and bassist Nick True’s earlier profession as a part of Nineteen Eighties band Associates of Gavin (who toured with REM and headliner The Smiths’ first London present). Reformed within the modern-day, Ardour is a nostalgic again journey again to the impulsivity and pleasure of your early 20s.

As Nick True says, “Our debut album is the fruits of three years of labor by The Horn, steadily unpacking a collection of singles and many years of need for me to make this a actuality. We needed it to be a set of songs that have been particular person versus any sort of idea, style, velocity, vibe or anything, that every music was its personal factor, so we hope individuals prefer it!” The band are accomplished by band members Danny Monk (multi-instrumentalist), Jonny Taylor (singer and guitarist), Ed Cox (keyboardist), and Alex Moorse (drummer) making certain this undertaking retains that youthful enthusiasm however with a matured set of intentions.

Elsewhere on Individuals Like Us, you’ll additionally discover the anti-authority anthem One other Means. A Britpop-infused observe that provides an perception into the extra hedonistic and swaggering aspect to The Horn’s sound. There’s additionally the down-to-earth 50 Years After, which is extra subdued and pensive with winding melodies wrapped round reflective lyrics. the band take extra of a stance towards the powers that be is the aptly named Energy Present, a punchy, energetic quantity that speaks on to listener suggesting a wariness about authority figures’ motives as they search to know for extra management.

It’s not all about revolt although, The Horn additionally need listeners to take life by the (excuse the pun) horns. The bombastic indie-rock Do It Now blocks out the day by day noise to concentrate on what issues most, dwelling our one life to the fullest and most positively. Pairing with that is one other single, July’s Too Many Moments which craftily weaves collectively indie, rock, synth and psychedelic parts into one timeless composition, occupying that previously-uncharted hinterland between Speak Speak, Lotus Eaters and Chris Isaac. One other beforehand launched observe the band have shared was the title-track Individuals Like Us. It’s a delicate, meandering and climatic anthem that joins collectively everybody who finds themselves on the outskirts of polarising debates. It’s important to the album’s core message; of desirous to be accepted by the world, however not wanting to evolve for that purpose alone.

Musically, The Horn’s sound may be outlined as Britpop-infused indie-rock that fizzes with vitality and angst. Wrapped up within the band’s hedonistic tales of London life, cautionary tales of rising up and the dismissal of being held again by guidelines, self-doubt or authority figures is a deeper which means. Right here, you’ll discover the distinctive intergenerational trade between two of the members, Nick and Jonny, who may need been born many years aside, and but they’ve discovered countless frequent floor. It’s no secret that ageism plagues the music business and it’s important to The Horn’s artistic output to show that age actually is only a quantity and to all the time deliver the listener again to the timelessness of human expertise.

One of many highlights of the album is a observe that’s been ‘held again’ till now and is getting used because the ‘focus observe’, Addicted To Love. Sonically it seamlessly fuses parts of a quantity totally different genres, making a one thing that’s each acquainted and refreshingly distinctive, though the dreamy observe does handle to have a really feel of the aforementioned Mr Issac.

Talking of the observe, True explains “Addicted To Love is a really candy however morbid music, I feel I desire to not say a lot about it because it speaks for itself… the music was born one Sunday when Jonny came to visit and we labored on it. I had the verse and bridge with this catchy melody that Jonny sang “addicted to like” to. It was a stunning second after we listened to it again on the finish of the day, one other a kind of that made us assume, “how did we do this!” We then took it to Danny who weaved his magic on it in his studio and we then took that to RAK with Danton producing the completed observe. After all I want so as to add that Alex and Ed added their drums and keys magic on to it too!”

To advertise their debut album, The Horn will likely be becoming a member of Scouting For Ladies on their tourover the following few weeks.

18th Nov – Corn Trade, Cambridge
twentieth Nov – Exeter Uni, Exeter
twenty first Nov – O2 Academy, Leicester
twenty third Nov – O2 Academy, Leeds
twenty fourth Nov – O2 Academy, Sheffield
twenty fifth Nov – O2 Academy, Birmingham
twenty seventh Nov – Roadmender, Northampton
twenty eighth Nov – Norwich UAE, Norwich
twenty ninth Nov – Guildford G Dwell, Guildford
1st Dec – O2 Academy, Bournemouth 2nd Dec – Roundhouse, London

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All phrases by Iain Key. See his writer profile right here or discover him on X (Twitter) as @iainkey