expect delay
Every once in a while – looks to be about an annual tradition – I’ll remember that I love I Break Horses, and wonder if they’ve been up to anything. I do this mostly by checking their socials and, at the very least, seek out proof of life. There’s been little to report since 2020’s […]
I’ve been around long enough to accept that sometimes acts just disappear quietly, without an announcement or farewell release or tour. That’s probably more the norm than the exception. That said, I hold out hope that the radio silence from Maria Lindén of I Break Horses is just part of her pattern of going incommunicado […]
Sometimes simply Googling the name of an artist and “complete show” can be surprisingly fruitful. There’s not a ton of high quality live I Break Horses footage out there, since Maria Lindén and company aren’t exactly road warriors, but this recording of their performance at the Refinery Gallery in Bratisalva, Slovakia in April 2014 as […]
Maria Lindén of I Break Horses essays her choice for the top Spiritualized record for Sonic Cathedral. Pure Phase is also possibly my favourite Spiritualized album for reasons I can’t fully articulate; maybe because it was the hardest one for me to find used on CD some 20-plus years ago. I made an attempt to […]
I Break Horses have shape-shifted a fair bit over the course of their three albums, albeit without ever moving too far from the lush synthesized dream-pop at their core. And while I’ve been with them through it all, I still go back to their 2011 debut Hearts the most – it being the lushest and […]
