Horse Jumper Of Love – Disaster Trick LP (Cream & Grey Vinyl) For Cheap

Horse Jumper of Love thrive on patient and pummeling songs. Since 2013, the Boston trio of singer-guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos, bassist John Margaris, and drummer James Doran have slowly stretched the fringes of indie rock across five full-length LPs. Their music unwinds with gutting emotional intensity thanks to Giannopoulos impressionistic lyrics and how the arrangements violently lurch from delicate to bludgeoning. Disaster Trick, the band s new album out August 16 via Run For Cover, is their most direct and uncompromising LP yet. It s 11 songs tackle self-destructiveness and healing with jolting lucidity.

Where the band s last LP 2023 s Heartbreak Rules excelled with quiet, bare-bones songwriting, Disaster Trick cranks up the volume and boasts some of the most expansive arrangements of the band s catalog. Recorded at Asheville, North Carolina s Drop of Sun Studios with producer Alex Farrar, the recordings soar with searing guitars and a thunderous rhythm section. I tried the quiet thing on the last album and I realized there s definitely two parts of me: I like really heavy music, and I like really gentle music, says Giannopoulos. The two albums I was listening to the most, while we were in the studio were the Leonard Cohen s Songs From a Room and Hum s Downward is Heavenward.  Disaster Trick is a dark record but it s never dour. There s a glimmer of hope and humor throughout these 11 songs, written with the grace that only time and growing up can bring. As he sings on Death Spiral, I know it sounds dramatic But I must describe The way that it felt. There s catharsis when it s needed most. This album is a reflection on destructive behavior from a lens of more clarity, says Giannopoulos. A lot of the songs came out of this point where things in my life were going well but I couldn t accept it. I was being a brat. Disaster Trick is me cleaning up my act a bit and reflecting on it.