New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Ypsilanti, MI's loud & fuzzy indie-rock trio, minihorse has announced a string of new tour dates, including their first trip to SXSW with a trio of shows next month, and a sold-out show supporting
Grandaddy this weekend in San Francisco at Noise Pop.
minihorse's debut EP "Big Lack" is out now on Friendship Fever and is available on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp.
Upcoming shows:
Feb 24 Ruhstaller Tap Room Sacramento, CA (with So Much Light)
Feb 26 Noise Pop @ Bimbo's 365 San Francisco, CA (with Grandaddy) Sold Out
Feb 27 Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT Tickets
Mar 01 Quenchers Chicago, IL
Mar 15 SXSW @ Spider House, Austin, TX (with Growl)
Mar 16 SXSW @ Maggie Mae's (inside) Friendship Fever Showcase Austin, TX (with Roselit Bone, Deep State, Imaginary Tricks,
Dustin Lovelis, and Loud Sun)
Mar 17
Music Tastes Good Party @ Valhalla Austin, TX RSVP (with Broncho, Frankie Rose, Vagabon)
March 23 Treefort
Music Fest @ The Olympic Boise, ID (with Dressy Bessy, Chain of Flowers, The Outfit)
March 24-25 Treefort
Music Fest Boise, ID TBD
What others are saying about minihorse:
"...fuzzy and warm like your oldest, best-loved sweater." - Brooklyn Vegan
"It feels like something of misgiving that Minihorse's 'Big Lack' EP is the band's debut release, for so much of it feels the re-arrival of your favourite band. Like a sucker-punch to the gut, the trio's darkened power-pop feels resolutely personable and amenable..."- Gold Flake Paint
"The stereo plays something that sounds like Clouds Taste Metallic but perhaps performed by Teenage
Fanclub instead of The Flaming Lips; that's minihorse, that is. A band that specialises in scuzzy power pop, the Michigan trio somehow manage to do this while instilling a fuzzy, warm glow inside your soul. Slacker pop meets shoegaze and it never felt so good."- God Is In The TV
"There's No 'Big Lack' of Hooks on Minihorse's New EP"- Clrvynt
minihorse is:
Ben Collins (vocals, guitar), Christian Anderson (bass), John Fossum (drums)
About minihorse:
Curled up in a nest of fuzz pedal guts, minihorse guitarist Ben Collins realized one night that his dreams have no meaning. All that circuit wiring, as it turns out, is a harness for trapping delusions.
The band explores that revelation over the unresolved pop progressions of debut EP 'Big Lack', shrugging off the big dumb universe with a wry tunefulness. Tracked at Collins's home studio amid tinkerings with a prototype electrode headband, the record leaks out of headphones like slow direct current.
minihorse's genetic inheritance is a recombination of bedroom transistor wizards like Bob Pollard, cruising guitar rock into the outer valences of space in a shit-can convertible, and the brandied humor of
Evan Dando and Alex Chilton, approaching the void with a pack of cigarettes.
Cooing sarcasm over a wallop of scuzzy power pop, Collins pokes at misfit notions of belonging or purpose with a Jason Lytle sigh. "Hollywood painted it black/Wait. Paint it back," he jokes before the dam breaks on "Drink You Dry."
Collins and his fellow Ypsilanti yntroverts, bassist Christian Anderson and drummer John Fossum, are giddy with their musical contraptions. They scatter hooks like firecrackers on a blacktop throughout opener "Blueblack" and beat down doors with cool-headed kraut jam "Pinstripe Web."
With breezy "Thriller," Collins grips the tape reel, jerking the recording into warbled askew against a hummable fuzz bass counterpoint that coats the band's keen insight:
"The thrill is not what's gone/It never was."
minihorse is currently in the studio, putting the finishing touches on their debut LP, coming later this year on Friendship Fever.
