Horse Jumper of Love Share Two New Unheard B-Sides

Listen to "The Idiot" and "The Car Knows The Way"

Last summer Horse Jumper of Love released their latest album, Disaster Trick, drawing acclaim from fans and critics alike. Now they're back with two previously unheard b-sides from the album, out today.

"The Idiot" and "The Car Knows The Way" were recorded at Asheville, North Carolina’s Drop of Sun Studios with producer Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo De Souza) during the Disaster Trick sessions and they retain the album's gauzy atmosphere while standing on their own. Horse Jumper of Love excel at writing patient and expansive music and "The Idiot" leans into that side of the band's oeuvre with a tightly wound coil of fuzzy guitars and restrained percussion slowly unwinding around vocalist/guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos' cutting lyricism. "The Car Knows The Way" taps into the sparser, more lofi side of the band, cloaking the listener in warm vocals and tape hiss.

Vocalist/guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos discussed the new songs saying:

"'The Idiot' was initially inspired by Prince Myshkin from the Dostoevsky book. In the beginning of the book he was gone for a few years at a clinic in Switzerland and is on his way to Saint Petersburg only to get thrown into all kinds of drama. I liked the idea of 'stumbling' back into a whole lotta shit.

The song is about stumbling back into your 'real' life after tapping out for some time. When you're in a mentally unavailable state and then you get your shit together, you expect people to have waited for you and to be available themselves when you're 'back.' The first time in your life it happens to you and you realize people have not waited can be hard to face.

'The Car Knows the Way' is about letting the car bring you to where you need to go."

Horse Jumper of Love are staying busy this spring with a lengthy run of tour dates supporting Turnover on their Peripheral Vision ten year anniversary tour along with Balance and Composure. See full itinerary below.

Horse Jumper of Love are staying busy this spring with a lengthy run of tour dates supporting Turnover on their Peripheral Vision ten year anniversary tour along with Balance and Composure. See full itinerary below.