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Please Don’t Ask Horsegirl to Rescue Indie Rock From Oblivion

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Horsegirl's new album, Versions of Modern Performance, is one of the most promising debuts of 2022 .

It's an album of loud, insouciant guitar music with impeccable indie-rock cred.

Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth played on it, for God's sake.

Phonetics On and On is a new album by the trio of Horsegirl .

The trio has toured the US and UK , opened for Wilco , Pavement, and Yo La Tengo .

The new album builds on, and depart from, everything that had come before.

They say they have had no nightmare encounters with other artists.

Horsegirl do everything together, including writing, recording and making cover art.

Drummer Le Bon says their collaborativeness stood out in the studio.

Reece and Lowenstein : "I don’t think I’ve experienced a band communicate in such a clear and honest way before".

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