Brown Horse

Brown Horse’s third album, Total Dive, is a bigger, bolder beast than anything they have attempted before. Snarling guitars and weary pedal steel carry songs steeped in isolation, loss and defiant dark humour, with nods to Neil Young, Jason Molina and Uncle Tupelo running beneath the scuzz. A pinnacle, reached in just three albums.

Musically, lyrically and thematically, a fire rages through the Brown Horse’s sophomore album, All The Right Weaknesses. It’s a stupendous follow-up that should see it easily featured on many year-end best-of lists.

While Brown Horse may be from Norfolk, ‘Reservoir’, strongly suggests that their musical souls are rooted in the soil tilled at Big Pink and lit by a harvest moon. Their music is capable of both molten ferocity and tender sepia-grained caresses. A hugely confident debut.

Unvarnished yet impeccably crafted, the music of Brown Horse has a heartfelt magnetism. They could also be Norwich’s answer to the Felice Brothers – watch their video for ‘Sunfisher’, the lead single taken from their debut album ‘Reservoir’, released on 19th January 2024 via Loose Music.