I BREAK HORSES - HEARTS (LP)

I Break Horses Hearts on LP

I Break Horses is the nom de plume of Maria Lindén and her musical partner Fredrik Balck. Residing in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, the duo have quietly been crafting the nine tracks that make up debut album Hearts throughout stolen moments gathered up over the past three years.

Although heavily and openly influenced by My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus & Mary Chain et al, Hearts is far from an exercise in typical shoegaze fare. Lindén, possibly the most diminutive and unassuming person one could ever wish to meet, is transformed on record to appear 10 ft tall: a shit kicker in high-fidelity.

And, perhaps where contemporaries would hypnotize the listener into their world by sheer volume alone, I Break Horses lock firmly onto the very thing that makes each and every one of us tick. Our pulse. Our Hearts. The common thread that links the nine songs together; always present, always beating, the album’s strength and presence guided entirely by it. Coupled with Lindén’s vocal, a gorgeous Scandinavian croon that’s bathed in an ocean of reverb and tremelo, Hearts is quite the sonic experience.

I Break Horses Hearts Track Listing:

1. Winter Beats
2. Hearts
3. Wired
4. I Kill Your Love, Baby!
5. Pulse
6. Cancer
7. Load Your Eyes
8. Empty Bottles
9. No Way Outro