Brown Horse announce highly anticipated new album and tour

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Norfolk’s metaphysical country troubadours Brown Horse have announced details of their highly anticipated second album, “All The Right Weaknesses“, which will come out on April 4th 2025 on Loose Music. The group returned to Sickroom Studios in Norfolk following a multi-month European tour. Road-tested and road-worn, the band tracked these eleven songs in a week of live takes. The aim was to build on the stark twang of their debut album, “Reservoir”’ and all the signs are that this an energized Brown Horse; melding slacker-rock, folk, and alt-country – perhaps equal parts Lucinda Williams, Jason Molina, The Breeders, and Silver Jews with contributions from the band’s multiple songwriters, the record is a patchwork potentially far greater than the sum of its parts.

‘Corduroy Couch’ is the first single from the album, songwriter Nyle Holihan comments “The song draws from a couple of sources, the most literal being my memory as a young teenager in the attic listening to worn out TalkingHeads and R.E.M. tapes on my parents’ big old beige sofa. Hopefully, some of the angular fuzziness of those albums carries through. I also took a lot of inspiration from the great short stories in Joy Williams’ ‘The Visiting Privilege’. She writes with amazing precision and communicates mood and atmosphere incredibly visually despite the sparseness of her prose. I tried to emulate a little of that in the verses.”

Arriving off the back of a busy touring schedule which included sets at Green Man Festival, Latitude, and the main stage at End of the Road, this second album is characterised by an intense energy born from night after night on tour playing full-band shows. As the band explains: “We’d been on the road in Europe for over two months by the time we arrived at the studio to start recording. We were pretty much constantly together, spending hours in the van listening to the same music, exploring unfamiliar places, and playing shows almost every night. That was sort of the creative justification for playing so many dates ahead of recording, to find that level of coherence. We didn’t need to pay for rehearsal space – we rotated new songs in the setlist and learned them on our rare days off. We’d slept on floors and in construction sites, caught midnight ferries, driven a Ford Transit past incredible Norwegian fjords, and been towed from a snowbank in the middle of nowhere by a man in shorts and flip-flops. It was pretty cool to be that tuned into each other, and have that shared experience going into recording an album.”

All The Right Weaknesses” Track Listing:

1. Verna Bloom   (3:47)
2. Wisteria Vine  (4:23)
3. Corduroy Couch  (4:23)
4. Dog Rose  (5:23)
5. All The Right Weaknesses  (3:15)
6. Holy Smokes  (2:24)
7. Radio Free Bolinas  (4:35)
8. Tombland  (2:40)
9. Curse (3:55)
10. Wipers  (4:19)
11. Far Off Places  (3:50)

Brown Horse UK Tour dates 2025:

April 23  – Bristol – Rough Trade
April 24 – London – Rich Mixx
April 25 – Oxford – Jericho Tavern
April 26 – Brighton – Green Door Store
April 30 – Edinburgh – Voodoo Rooms
May 1 – Glasgow – Hug & Pint
May 2 – North Shields – Three Tanners Bank
May 3 – Leeds – Headrow House
May 4 – Salford – Sounds from the Other City Festival
May 5 – Birmingham – Hare & Hounds 2

Here’s the single ‘Corduroy Couch’.

About Keith Hargreaves 485 Articles
Riding the one eyed horse into dead town the scales fell from his eyes. Music was the only true god at once profane and divine The dust blew through his mind as he considered the offering... And then he scored it out of ten and waited for the world to wake up
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