Dead Horse One - The West Is the Best (2019) EN

Shoegaze meeting post-grunge which results in "a collection of thwarted love songs in the spirit of Sparklehorse and other such 90’s bands". At the end of November last year, the third album from the French Dead Horse One, The West Is the Best, was released.

The title itself had to evoke some controversies as the band's leader, Olivier Debard had to make a statement saying that ”>The West Is the Best< concerns a variety of complex contemporary and cultural themes and is therefore intentionally ambiguous". The title is one thing, but the most important thing is that music is good. It's the band's second collaboration with RIDE's Mark Gardner who helped the French when they were debuting and now decided to mix the new material.

The psychedelic pop/rock on the album indeed sounds as if taken straight from the 90s. There are audible inspirations not only by Sparklehorse or RIDE (in The Shrine!) but also by My Bloody Valentine (in the repeating riff in Saudade for example). Just like the legends, the French don't try to reach an extra quality of sound, more like they leave a lot of noise and reverbs that make up the mysterious climate of their old-school shoegaze.

The West Is the Best costs 9 EUR.

Check: The Shrine

Country: France

Genre: old-school shoegaze

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