HORSEBATH

We are absolutley delighted to present one of Canada's most hotly tipped bands.

HORSEBATH are a band open to serendipity, always searching for that spark of creation that allows them to express something they couldn't otherwise put into words. That's exactly what happened one morning when they started jamming together during sessions for their muchanticipated debut album. After a few moments of aimless playing, they stumbled onto an idea, which they allowed to grow into a song none of them could have written by themselves. "It started out as this Tex-Mex-style tune and evolved from there, but it always had a cool energy," says Keast Mutter, one of the band's three lead singers and four multiinstrumentalists. That energy thrummed even as they devised excited harmonies, gave it the title "Hard to Love," and wrote lyrics about a very particular kind of restlessness. "It turned into a song about staying in one place for too long and knowing you're going to leave, even if you're not sure when. The result is a lot of pain in your relationships."

Pitchfork Review. "Playing songs about roaming, Horsebath make no bones about gesturing toward other artists who've played songs about roaming. They venerate The Band, of course, but also Neil Young, the Buckaroos, Hank Williams, and the International Submarine Band, and they ignore the skeleton frames of burned-out bands who've driven these same highways. "In the Shade" has more than a bit of Gram Parsons' cosmic country sound, but Horsebath find unexpected ways to convey spaciness, primarily by filling every empty space with swirls of ominous organ chords. It all makes the chorus-"I run from the sun and I hide in the shade"-sound that much more haunted, like Mutter is crawling out of a dark hole."