UK Tour underway this month with NEW Autumn Dates just announced
First ever US shows in May (see full tour dates below). Spanish shows in July.
APRIL UK DATES:
Apr 09 Southbourne, UK – The Larder House
Apr 10 Falmouth, UK – Wanderfal
Apr 11 Bristol, UK – Outer Town Festival
Apr 12 Oxford, UK – The Jericho Tavern
Apr 15 Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Apr 16 Luton, UK – The Bear Club
Apr 17 Brighton, UK – The Hope & Ruin
Apr 18 Ipswich, UK – St. Stephen’s Church
NEWLY ANNOUNCED OCTOBER UK DATES:
Oct 20 Cambridge, UK – The Portland Arms
Oct 21 Nottingham, UK – The Bodega
Oct 22 London, UK – MOTH Club
Oct 23 Norwich, UK – Norwich Arts Centre
Oct 24 Coventry, UK – The Tin Music and Arts
Oct 25 St. Davids, UK – Boia Festival
Oct 27 Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute
Oct 28 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Oct 29 Glasgow, UK – Mono
Oct 30 Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade
The wait is nearly over for the brand new album from UK indie country outfit Brown Horse. Their third and best album in as many years, Total Dive is due to be unleashed to the world on Friday, 10 April. 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.
The band is celebrating early by debuting their new music video for “Comeback Loading“ off the album, penned by Turner. The video is a nod to Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire”, where he plays a mechanic. Brown Horse’s one is more of a budget version, filmed on a bleak day on the outskirts of Cromer in Norfolk. As songwriter Patrick Turner explains, “With this song I was trying to connect the kind of dumb, ironic t-shirt slogans you’d see everywhere when I was growing up to something a bit more real: memory, going back home, hearing about the things childhood friends had been dealing with since you last spoke to them, that sort of thing. The chorus wraps all that up in a couple of Springsteen references.”
The album has already received critical acclaim, with Uncut crowning them with a coveted Album of the Month and a fittingly impressive 9/10 score, saying… “the band moving at a pace you could appropriately describe as a gallop…. the music seems full of upheaval, turmoil, seething guitars.” And KLOF declared “In just three years and three albums, Brown Horse have reached a pinnacle many bands take a lifetime to achieve; you can’t help thinking they’ve only just begun.”
Total Dive is Brown Horse’s strongest and most grounded work to date, it showcases a new level of skill and assurance in the 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.
Brown Horse on tour:
Apr 09 Southbourne, UK – The Larder House
Apr 10 Falmouth, UK – Wanderfal
Apr 11 Bristol, UK – Outer Town Festival
Apr 12 Oxford, UK – The Jericho Tavern
Apr 15 Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Apr 16 Luton, UK – The Bear Club
Apr 17 Brighton, UK – The Hope & Ruin
Apr 18 Ipswich, UK – St. Stephen’s Church
May 02 Los Angeles, CA – Permanent Records Roadhouse
May 03 Ojai, CA – Deer Lodge
May 05 San Francisco, CA – Make-Out Room
May 07 Seattle, WA – Baba Yaga
May 08 Trout Lake, WA – Trout Lake Hall
May 09 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
May 10 Vancouver, BC – The Pearl
May 13 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
May 14 Chicago, IL – The Hideout
May 15 Detroit, MI – Lager House
May 16 Toronto, ON – Monarch Tavern
May 19 Boston, MA – O’Brien’s Pub
May 20 New York, NY – Night Club 101
July 24 Deer Shed Festival
June 30 Barcelona, ES – Upload
July 1 Valencia, ES.– Loco Club
July 3/4 San Vicente de Alcántara, ES – SubeRock Festival
July 3/4/5 Segovia, ES – Huercasa Country Festival
July 24 Deer Shed Festival
Oct 20 Cambridge, UK – The Portland Arms
Oct 21 Nottingham, UK – The Bodega
Oct 22 London, UK – MOTH Club
Oct 23 Norwich, UK – Norwich Arts Centre
Oct 24 Coventry, UK – The Tin Music and Arts
Oct 25 St. Davids, UK – Boia Festival
Oct 27 Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute
Oct 28 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Oct 29 Glasgow, UK – Mono
Oct 30 Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade
