Brighten The Corners Presents Norwich alt country band Brown Horse at The Church on Saturday 18th April.
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Support from Elanor Moss
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Time: 7:30-11pm
Venue: The Church, Ipswich
Tickets: £15
Supports: TBCAge Restrictions: 14+ (14- 17s must be accompanied by an adult)
There is step-free access into the venue and the bar / accessible toilet / venue are all on one floor. For further information, please email info@brightenthecorners.co.uk so we can make your visit as comfortable as possible.
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Brown Horse return with their third album Total Dive. Their strongest and most grounded work to date, it showcases a new level of skill and assurance in the Norwich, UK band’s thoughtful lyricism and musicality. Leaning away from the playfulness and eclecticism of their previous works, Total Dive sees Brown Horse step forward into the darkness with a cautious optimism. With songs from each of the four members (Patrick Turner, Nyle Holihan, Emma Tovell and Rowan Braham) the writing charts a world of small revelations and painful changes. As they move confidently between searing noise and delicate reflection, they take time to note the beauty and agony of the mundane; the death rattle of a vending machine, headlights flashing in the eyes of a road-killed fox, the heather-pink of a winter sky.
The new album is the clearest expression yet of Brown Horse’s unique sound - somewhere between the stark country rock of Uncle Tupelo, the raw intimacy of early Cat Power, and the haunted landscapes of Magnolia Electric Co., while embracing the self-possessed noisiness of alt rock trailblazers like Built to Spill and The Breeders. Bolstered by the playing of Norwich drummer, Ben Rodwell, and the vocal harmonies of Leeds-based musician, Neve Cariad, Total Dive is the sound of a band coming fully into their own. These are songs inhabited by wide Norfolk skies, thousands of shared miles on the road, the noise of heartbreak and humour, and the echoing silence of long hours spent in strange in-between places.
An “emotionally transatlantic” talent with family roots in Lincolnshire and Baltimore, Elanor draws on folk influence from homes familiar and felt. She uses songs to turn over the nuances of life lived in relation to others, taking inspiration from the British folk canon and American one alike. With heroes including Judee Sill and Joni Mitchell as well as Sibylle Baier and Vashti Bunyan, her subject is always people in all their lovely flawed-ness.