songs so full of wonder that they make your heart ache

June 3, 2016 4:29 AM

Whyte Horses are a fantastically jangly, spacey psych-pop group from Manchester, headed up by cratedigging 'B-music crusader' Dom Thomas. They've just (re)released their debut album called Pop or Not and it sounds like nothing else, shapeshifting 'from Turkish psyche to Brazilian trip music, from acid house to electronica to punk rock to guitar classic in a heartbeat'. It stars underground 'no-fi' musician Lispector, who left the band between recording and release. Try out choice cuts The Snowfalls, La Couleur Originelle and Natures Mistakes and if you like what you hear, there's another fourteen great tracks on the album.
posted by Panthalassa (9 comments total)

Also, my favourite Lispector thing at the moment is her cover of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark.
posted by Panthalassa at 4:32 AM on June 3, 2016

It was love at first hearing for me when Marc Riley played Astrologie Sidérale on his 6 Music show early last year: I pre-ordered Pop Or Not right away, and ended up (seven or eight months later - there were delays) with a copy of the original self-released limited-edition vinyl version of it. I’m delighted to see it’s finally getting a proper release!
posted by misteraitch at 5:04 AM on June 3, 2016

Is "La Couleur Originelle" a lost Stereolab track?
posted by kewb at 6:53 AM on June 3, 2016

This is rather good. The sort of thing that Phil Smee would put out on Bam Caruso back in the day.
posted by scruss at 8:04 AM on June 3, 2016

This is fantastic!
posted by naju at 8:44 AM on June 3, 2016

Terrific. I'll probably buy this. Reminds me of The Clientele.
posted by jwhite1979 at 8:46 AM on June 3, 2016 [1 favorite]

Given that one or more of "fantastically jangly", "spacey", "psych-pop", "from Manchester", and "reminds me of the Clientele" could apply to approximately 90% of my record collection, I think I'll like this.

*Listens to first 30 seconds of The Snowfalls.

Sold.
posted by otters walk among us at 10:15 AM on June 3, 2016 [4 favorites]

I'm so glad I posted this to MetaFilter, because I'd passed over Stereolab and The Clientele before, and the comments here convinced me to reconsider. And they're fantastic, so hurray!
posted by Panthalassa at 1:24 AM on June 4, 2016 [2 favorites]

Also worth checking out: Melody's Echo Chamber
posted by naju at 2:11 AM on June 4, 2016