Sugar Horse - Not a Sound in Heaven (2026)

The messy and chaotic mix of nugaze, pop, post-metal and pure anger that boils with energy and noise! Yes, the Brits of Sugar Horse are back! The third album came quite soon after the last one and I couldn't be happier as it's exactly what I love in this Machine Girl meets Nothing project. It just makes me jump around, even on this grey and melancholic day.

Although they still call themselves "a decidedly average band", they don't fool anyone anymore. Three albums in and it's still a fresh and exciting take on modern noise music. Short phrases for short attention spin suffering audience, tons of shifts in paces and melodies, angry screaming being a neighbour of soft, atmospheric choruses. And it's all put together and melt into a perfect modern album that calls extreme eclecticism being "decidedly average". This blend is a mesmerizing one indeed.

It's only fitting that the lyrics here are slightly poetic but very timely comments on the reality around us. The reality that is equally chaotic and messy but also way less appealing. "Brought to heel/Trained not to feel" in Secret Speech and "Keep the market free/And if it bleeds/We can kill it for you" in Fire Graphics being only two examples of the poignant and not-so-fun-at-all themes on the album .Sugar Horse, the missing horseman of the Apocalypse.

Not a Sound in Heaven costs 6 EUR (5 GBP).

Check: Secret Speech

Country: UK

Genre: chaotic modern shoegaze

Label: Fat Dracula Records

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