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The single, ‘Lied’ / ‘Decorate My Bones’
A Houndstooth release – 29th April 2016

For those already aware of the work of Snow Ghosts it will come as little surprise that their new single ‘Lied’ creeps into your ears and finds a dark corner from where it slowly spreads into your consciousness and refuses to budge. Shot through with the gothic drama that has been a hallmark of their work since their debut EP, this first instalment of a new approach from the band marks another staging post in the band’s transition from studio project to fully fledged, fully instrumentalised outfit.

For those new to Snow Ghosts, their music may be familiar to you without your knowledge. Having recently soundtracked the trailer to ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and featured on a multitude of television shows including, most recently, ABC’s celebrated ‘How To Get Away With Murder’, Snow Ghosts are a band that are, quite literally, more present than you may imagine in the public mind. 

Their last track ‘Undertow’ for the Houndstooth compilation ‘Tessellations’ received acclaim from no less a supporter than NPR, handpicked by their staff for a 'Songs we Love' premiere, comparing them to the ‘British and fatalist’ sounds of New order.

The 2016 Snow Ghosts now combine the original core of Snow Ghosts; producer / instrumentalist Ross Tones, aka Throwing Snow, and singer / songwriter Hannah Cartwright, aka Augustus Ghost, with guitarist and violinist Oliver Knowles, sometime member of renowned math rock groups Meet Me In St Louis and Exes for studio work. With Alistair, Ross’ brother, stepping in on drums for live shows, Snow Ghosts continue to develop and enhance their approach.

From their inception, Snow Ghosts’ music existed in a meeting point between the dynamics of dance, rock and traditional songcraft, Ross and Hannah’s childhood and formative musical experiences being a massive influence on the way that their sound developed. For Ross, a childhood in the Dales of the North East soundtracked by the eclecticism of John Peel augmented by a move to the soundsystem culture capital that is Bristol created a love of music outside of genre, as a mover of mood, feeling and innovation. For Hannah, a childhood in Abu Dhabi, blending her parent’s late 60’s western rock with the sound of the muezzin from the nearby mosque, delivered a similarly diverse soundscape to a young ear. 

With the addition of Oliver for second album, ‘A Wrecking’, (a man with a soft spot for both the soundscapes of Mogwai and Godspeed and the full on attack of the Sub Pop and Dischord rosters), another layer of musical input was added.

The culmination of these influences and abilities is a music that transcends the labels that are so often attached to contemporary music. Whilst Drowned in Sound were undoubtedly onto something when they talked of electronica ‘assimilated into the worlds of ambient and folk music’ on ‘A Wrecking’, Snow Ghosts’ latest recordings have moved the goalposts once more, utilising all the talents at their disposal to create music that can incorporate the high drama and pure (original) gothic of ‘Lied’ and the plaintive, naked beauty of ‘Decorate My Bones’ in under ten minutes.

‘Lied’ / ‘Decorate My Bones’ is released by Houndstooth on 29th April.

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2017’s equal parts somnambulant and sultry Sleeprydr 7” was aptly described as “psychedelic rock that hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares” (-Stereogum). Thankfully, Slow Sundown, Holy Motors’ debut full length release, finds the Estonian dreamcatchers utilizing a similar sonic palette ranging from dark psychedelic pop to shoegaze-inflected western music. But while Sleeprydr, much like 2015’s Heavenly Creatures 7”, provided only a fleeting glimpse into the dreamscape that their music evokes, Slow Sundown’s eight tracks offer a more immersive experience for those brave enough to take the ride. While the guitar lines from lonely cowboy ballads like “Honeymooning” could easily serve as the central themes for unwritten Morriccone scores, dystopian anthems like the rhythmically propelled “Signs” break new ground for the band and demonstrate that Holy Motors are not bound by their influences. Thematically the album is comprised primarily of sad love songs centered around the idea of motion – the motion of a satellite orbiting a planet, the motion of a passenger riding shotgun in a car – as it relates to stellar-scale and existential isolation. Produced by Merchandise’s Carson Cox and recorded at Brooklyn’s Kutch1 Studios when the band was visiting the US on tourist visas, Slow Sundown is a beautiful alien artifact that definitively delivers on everything we have been promised by Holy Motors’ work to date.

About Holy Motors

Hailing from Estonia, Holy Motors is a five-piece twang and reverb band featuring three guitarists. They are cowboys at heart who come off as shoegazers by their presence and dreamcatchers in their music. In their time, Holy Motors have played alongside bands such as Kaleidoscope, Craft Spells, Sic Alps, Dirty Fences, and Rips. They will appear at South by Southwest in 2018 and are currently organizing a series of US tour dates centered around the festival.

STEREOGUM
Hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares
THE FADER
HOLY MOTORS makes shoegaze that sounds like the old west
ADHOC
Alluring in their delivery, entrapping in their substance

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