Minihorse Share "Drink You Dry" Video Via Gold Flake Paint | Debut EP Out 11/11
MINIHORSE SHARES “DRINK YOU DRY” VIDEO
VIA GOLD FLAKE PAINT
DEBUT EP ‘BIG LACK’ OUT 11/11 ON FRIENDSHIP FEVER
Photo Cred:Mark Kallweit
WATCH & SHARE: MINIHORSE- “DRINK YOU DRY”
“It works as a song to fuzz out to, but you’ll be rewarded for tuning in to the somber lyrics. This is a song you want to hear live in the type of venue where your feet stick to the floor. ” – All Things Go
“‘Drink You Dry’ has this great sense of catchy melancholia … cuts directly into your soul” – CBS Local
“Like a sucker-punch to the gut, the trio’s darkened power-pop feels resolutely personable and amenable, and nowhere more so than on the brilliantly scuzzy dirge of “Drink You Dry” – Gold Flake Paint
Gold Flake Paint has debuted Minihorse’s new video for “Drink You Dry“, which will be released on their new EP ‘Big Lack’ out 11/11 via Friendship Fever. It’s the band’s second single to premiere follwing “Blueblack” which debuted earlier in the month on Brooklyn Vegan. Check out the band when they hit the road this fall. Tour dates below!
Curled up in a nest of fuzz pedal guts, Minihorse guitarist Ben Collins realized one night that his dreams have no meaning. All that circuit wiring, as it turns out, is a harness for trapping delusions.
The band explores that revelation over the unresolved pop progressions of debut EP Big Lack, shrugging off the big dumb universe with a wry tunefulness. Tracked at Collins’s home studio amid tinkerings with a prototype electrode headband, the record leaks out of headphones like slow direct current.
Minihorse’s genetic inheritance is a recombination of bedroom transistor wizards like Bob Pollard, cruising guitar rock into the outer valences of space in a shit-can convertible, and the brandied humor of Evan Dando and Alex Chilton, approaching the void with a pack of cigarettes.
Cooing sarcasm over a wallop of scuzzy power pop, Collins pokes at misfit notions of belonging or purpose with a Jason Lytle sigh. “Hollywood painted it black/Wait. Paint it back,” he jokes before the dam breaks on “Drink You Dry.”
Collins and his fellow Ypsilanti introverts, bassist Christian Anderson and drummer John Fossum, are giddy with their musical contraptions. They scatter hooks like firecrackers on a blacktop throughout opener “Blueblack” and beat down doors with cool-headed kraut jam “Pinstripe Web.”
With breezy “Thriller”, Collins grips the tape reel, jerking the recording into warbled askew against a hummable fuzz bass counterpoint that coats the band’s keen insight: “The thrill is not what’s gone/It never was.”
Big Lack will be available on November 11th, 2016. Minihorse is currently in the studio, putting the finishing touches on their debut LP, coming in 2017 on Friendship Fever.
TOUR DATES
10/20 Nashville, TN @ The Black Cat
10/21 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s w/Diane Coffee
10/22 New Orleans, LA @ The Circle Bar w/Mariine
10/23 Lafayette, LA @ Blue Moon Saloon w/Carbon Poppies
10/25 Austin, TX @ Beer Land
10/26 San Antonio, TX @ Limelight w/The Hawks of Holy Rosary
10/28 Las Vegas, NV @ Artifice w/ Sunrise Manor
10/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Cafe w/Tess & Dave
10/30 Long Beach, CA @ Que Sera Sera
11/3 San Francisco, CA @ The Make-Out Room w/Silver Shadows
11/4 Sacramento, CA @ Red Museum w/Imaginary Tricks, Honyock, Pregnant Women
11/6 Portland, OR @ The Fixin’ To w/Roselit Bone
11/8 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile (Backroom)
11/12 Chicago, IL @ Virgin Hotel
11/15 Minneapolis, MN @ Eagles Club 34 w/Andrew Jansen
TRACKLISTING – BIG LACK
1. Blueblack
2. Drink You Dry
3. Thriller
4. Pinstripe Web
5. Colour
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