In 2023, feeble little horse jumped into the shoegaze revival wave with their great album Girl with Fish, but not too long after, the band was forced to scrap their tour dates and take some time off. Last year, the group reconvened to play Pitchfork Music Festival and a glimmer of hope regarding the band's future emerged. Now, the band has shared their first bit of new music since their last album and the single "This is Real" is a powerful, raging tune that flips on a dime from their chewy alt-rock guitar, for something much more wicked and sinister, like the page of the band's script flipping mid-song to reveal a side much darker and more intense than we could've imagined. The band's Lydia Slocom said:
I think it’s important that this song is released to turn the page, but also to enjoy the product of sitting with something for a record breaking amount of time for us as a band. We wrote our past 2 albums with this indescribable urgency, and I think ”This Is Real” happened while the burner was turned to low if that makes sense. I wouldn’t say this track can function as a prophecy for what our sound will become for the next album, but it’s become something no other song will ever quite compare to. I seriously grew so much as a person from the beginning to end of the writing process, since the song started when we had to cancel our tour and finally finished just a few weeks ago. I hope this track can function as a time capsule for our fans the same way it has for us.
There's still no word on a new album or what the future holds, but this is a great reminder of what could potentially be in our future.
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