Horse Lords - Demand to be Taken to Heaven Alive LP

Horse Lords' explorations into microtonal harmonies get a big upgrade on this new album with the inclusion of vocals to their instrumental guitar/bass/sax/electronics/percussion lineup. Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor lend their voices, stretched and effected as they are, to add synthesizer-like arpeggios to some hypnotic rhythms that sound like a hybrid of the motorik beats of Krautrock, NY No Wave funk and Touareg polyrhythms. Groove-heavy tunes with a real heartbeat, coated with spiritual horn skronks and electronic wonkiness, that hit you right in the gut.