Feeble Little Horse gleam with Girl with Fish response.

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OVERVIEW

A play-style best suited to morning wakes, Feeble Little Horse are an alternative grunge-gaze/indie group from Pittsburgh. Acting almost as a caviat to the music they play, the band are also signed to proudly independent label Saddle Creek Records. Well, look at that.

They return into the Pennsylvanian moderately mild Summer temperatures with their eagerly awaited sophomore Girl with Fish. Embarking on a more complete finish from their debut Hayday in 2021, it features far more intricate guitar inflections under a lukewarm blanket of indie that swathes alongside it.

Championed by eager alternative composites of Pitchfork and less so by the Internet critic of Anthony Fantano, feeble little horse and their album have firmly solidified themselves in many-a shortlist for Album of the Year. Hence why we’re perhaps reviewing this one now, after the alleged hype it received upon release back in sunny June.

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SONG-TO-SONG

It kicks things off with a smattering of Freak; a carbon cutting of crunchy shoegaze before we’re reeled back into Tin Man, a subdued jangly arrangement of sorts that resembles closer to the likes of Dry Cleaning. We get a double dose of grunge-gaze with Steamroller – a wall of guitar partnered up with whimsical melodica-like melody line.

Rooted more so to their soft indie, Heaven is an elevator interval while Sweet charts more to indie rock; familial to Squirrel Flower, Being Dead and Wednesday who also all released earlier this year. While Station and Heavy Water wade through quite beautiful configurations kept up with the familiar guitar jangly strikes and gentile acoustics and soaring synths.

Girl with Fish is very much guitar music in every sense of the word. But makes up a lot in what is currently being pumped out in indie shoegaze in the eastern steel City right now.

FFO: Being Dead, Squirrel Flower, Dry Cleaning

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