{"product_id":"horse-lords-demand-to-be-taken-to-heaven-alive-white-vinyl","title":"Horse Lords - Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! [White Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: RVNGNL136LP-C2\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 0747742388224\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 12 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music on Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! feels both impossibly detailed and eminently human. The twelve pieces assembled are layered, interwoven, tonally and rhythmically complex––moiré-like patterns of interaction and tessellation that play out for both mind and body, full of sonic warrens with an inescapable groove. Artists aren’t necessarily scientists, logicians, or spiritual leaders, but through their personal understanding of order and experience, they provide experiential access to heightened states of both materiality and immateriality.\u003cbr\u003eHorse Lords were founded in Baltimore in 2010; they evolved from another group called Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with guitarist Owen Gardner, bassist Max Eilbacher, drummer Sam Haberman, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though the quartet grew out of a fertile noise and experimental rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach across six albums, various collaborations and as a celebrated live act has been more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate. For this outing, they are augmented by bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and in a first for Horse Lords, vocals courtesy Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor.\u003cbr\u003eThe process of constructing D2BT2HA! involved geographic hurdles, as the unit’s four members have lived in different cities since 2021. Given sixteen years as a working band, their shared language transcends locale. German transplants Gardner, Eilbacher, and Bernstein met in Berlin for tracking sessions while Haberman put together drum parts in Baltimore. One would not necessarily know this from listening, nor is it rare these days to collectively create remotely. The band notes that “trusting each other’s concepts and visions was more important than repeatedly playing a section to see if the music worked, although this trust was only made possible through working very closely together.”\u003cbr\u003eWhile D2BT2HA! isn’t a suite per se, the music influences and interacts with itself in complex linkages. Horse Lords observe that “we like the idea of art as a tool for changing your perspective, being able to rotate ideas and see\/hear\/feel them from a different vantage point.” Or to use a phrase attributed to Swami Satchidananda Saraswati, “understanding is standing under where you are already standing.” The opening piece, “Eureka 378-B,” is an arrangement of 19th century sacred harp music, lead by Guo and Saylor’s vocals; its melody flowers outward, setting a tonal launching pad for much of the music that follows. There are the brief “Rotations,” which isolate fragments from other pieces; and “a transformation algorithm was used to structure the title track, ‘Brain of the Firm,’ and part of ‘Second Galactic Utopia.’ This lends itself to a recursive approach where… the compositional scale becomes more ambiguous.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003cbr\u003eA1. Eureka 378-B\u003cbr\u003eA2. Brain of the Firm\u003cbr\u003eA3. Rotation I\u003cbr\u003eA4. Playing and Reality\u003cbr\u003eA5. Rotation II\u003cbr\u003eA6. First Galactic Utopia\u003cbr\u003eA7. Rotation III\u003cbr\u003eA8. Before the Law\u003cbr\u003eA9. After the Last Sky\u003cbr\u003eB1. A City Yet to Come\u003cbr\u003eB2. Second Galactic Utopia\u003cbr\u003eB3. Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RVNG INTL.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036292235420,"sku":"RVNGNL136LP-C2","price":25.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/HorseLords-DemandtoBeTakentoHeavenAlive.jpg?v=1780917982","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/horse-lords-demand-to-be-taken-to-heaven-alive-white-vinyl","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}