Lily and Horn Horse Share Three Tracks From Their Collaborative Debut – AdHoc

Lily and Horn Horse Share Three Tracks From Their Collaborative Debut

Take a listen to the duo’s unique and dynamic sound. 

While New York’s Lily Konigsberg (of Palberta) and Matt Norman, a.k.a. Horn Horse, have often operated in different respective sonic modes, Lily’s synth tracks and streamlined vocals and Horn Horse’s more fragmented jazz in conjunction generate a shared language. Their new duo Lily and Horn Horse presents a pop-oriented, danceable mesh of synths and vocals from both parties, with rousing baritone horn outbursts. For their tour together last August, they compiled a 28-track album of solo and collaborative tracks which comprise the forthcoming tape release Lily On Horn Horse. In the songs shared below, they showcase their range: Horn Horse opens “Year Book” with a minute-long improvisation filled with pounding drums and horns and keys, then glides into “PVC Pipes,” which features sparse waves of horns and frenetic pipe sounds under haunting vocals from both Lily and Horn Horse. Both parties’ words contain a strain of dissociative longing—for a life outside whatever’s inscribed, for a dream world. The closing song “I Only Lose Because I’m Lame” is Lily’s long sigh for that world, a stark contrast to the held breath of the previous tracks, just the piano and her voice in the high register calling out, “I can be there, in a dream / I can see it, but it’s nothing / I can see it.” It’s an ode to pathetic feeling—and even when she puts on the almost tongue-in-cheek “Oh … so sad…” there’s something deeply resonant in the surrender.

Lily On Horn Horse is out March 3 on Ramp Local.

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