- Record Label: Run for Cover Records
- Release Date: Aug 16, 2024
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Aug 30, 2024While listening to Disaster Trick, there is a sense that Giannopoulos intentionally distances himself, lingering in his thoughts. Given the traces of emotion he lays out throughout, they curiously let us in in mysterious ways. Credit also goes to the less measured and more textural production, which, unintentionally, allows the songs to become more alluring and inviting.
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Aug 15, 2024It’s not often that music this loud and distorted can break your heart.
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Aug 15, 2024It's an album that one can't help but to imagine making for impactful concert moments.
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Aug 15, 2024Giannopoulos’ writing here has a dark intensity. But by closer Nude Descending, he has opened up to softness: 'I felt like needing your embrace'. The guitars are suddenly frolicking and playful. It’s that crack of hope that permeates the best slowcore.
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Aug 15, 2024With Disaster Trick, Horse Jumper of Love subtly expand their sound without losing the instinctual, otherworldly interplay of their melodies, dizzying guitar lines and serpentine rhythms blurring together in a narcotic ooze.
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Sep 3, 2024Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman are featured on several tracks, as is indie rocker Ella O’Connor Williams (a.k.a Squirrel Flower). Yet their presence only enhances and never overshadows the trio’s music.
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Aug 16, 2024At any point where the album starts to feel repetitive or boring, it shakes you awake and shows you what’s purposeful. Disaster Trick is unafraid to relish in the mundane and trust that you’ll understand; its lyrics keep you busy and create a fair fight for balance.
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Sep 18, 2024Like much of Horse Jumper’s previous work, though, it doesn’t depart significantly from the canonic playbook, unfurling as derivation or emulation more than a recasting of the genre.
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Aug 22, 2024There’s a clarity of vision in his songwriting. However, the album lacks cohesion, not just their tendency to deliver songs of sonic variance. A few tracks, such as “Snow Angel”, “Wink”, and “Gates of Heaven” make the LP a worthwhile listen, but Disaster Trick as a whole will only appeal to their most devoted fans.