The Horns of Happiness return to the recorded world with their first release since 2007's What Spills Like Thread EP. Here we find the band in concept mode, balancing its pounding rhythms and airy melodies to create a soundtrack piece entitled Weathering Alterations. The band's normally speedy and structure-damaged tunes begin to stretch out, allowing repetition and space to create new moods. Originally performed as an accompaniment to the J. Shelley Harrison installation piece 'Don't Rain on My Parade,' t...   [ read more ]

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The Horns of Happiness are entirely songwriter Aaron Deer. As core member of both the Impossible Shapes and John Wilkes Booze, Deer is a ferocious live performer and inventive collaborator in the studio. For his second album under the Horns of Happiness moniker, he showcases his prowess on virtually every instrument (with some help from Impossible Shapes members Chris Barth, Jason Groth, Mark Rice, and Peter King). Like a glorious pillow fight in the heavens between Paul & Linda McCartney and Grandaddy, "A...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. From the west coast bedroom pop beginnings of last year's A Sea As A Shore, Aaron Deer's (one half of The Impossible Shapes) one time solo project is now anchored with the drumming kaleidoscope of one Shelley Harrison on their latest 12" Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline. Now a duo, the Elephant Six foundations have given way to a treasure trove of pounding rhythms and repetitive organ lines not unlike New York's Oneida at their devilish best on "Each One Teach One," or 20-odd years earlier...   [ read more ]

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