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Artist: Band of Horses
Website: www.myspace.com/bandofhorses
Track Name: The Funeral
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes

Band of Horses is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina based indie rock band, formed by Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke in 2004 after the break-up of their previous band, Carissa’s Wierd. Their debut album, Everything All the Time, was released in 2006. I stumbled across them on Odeo over Christmas and fell in love with The Funeral. Great guitars, great vocals… they have a reverb and they know how to use it. This is a tight band with a definite idea about what they are doing.

It’s a great tune and I love the light and shade that they achieved, when the band kicks in ( even though you know it’s coming) it is still a suprise.

It was a toss up between “The Funeral” and the equally awesome (“The Great Salt Lake“), but this is a more convential song structure. Actually as I listen to it again I think I am selling it short.

Oh well, download one of each from Sup Pop Records site, whack ‘em on the MP3 player and let me know which one you prefer. I think I am wrming to “The Great Salt Lake“

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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