#horse jumper of love

“The natural part in your hair before you comb / Eye socket into eye socket bone on bone / Exclusively tentacle porn,” sings vocalist and guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos in the opening moments of “The Natural Part”. As the pseudo title track off Horse Jumper of Love’s new album Natural Part, the listen sonically flows in the same way his lyrical visual hangs off his tongue if that makes any sense at all. Guitar lines drip and curl downward, and gravity has an effortless pull on the way the Bostonian slowcore trio apply pace and rhythm to such an ordinary moment made into widescreen intimacy. Clarity in the mix captured by Danny Reisch, most recently of labelmates Sun June’s latest effort Somewhere, brings bolder detail to life in Horse Jumper of Love’s sound, making something so mundane as the drop of a strand of follicles feel devastatingly poetic in their romantic downfall. “You cut the split ends off my hair / And threw them out in a plastic bag.” Hair today, love’s gone tomorrow.

Horse Jumper of Love’s Natural Part will be released June 17th on Run for Cover Records.