{"id":84687,"date":"2019-07-02T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=84687"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:26:23","slug":"review-horse-jumper-of-love-so-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-horse-jumper-of-love-so-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Horse Jumper Of Love &#8211; So Divine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84688 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-1000x1000.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9807115E-642D-40D5-B22C-0EAA0D0CF7AA.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Horse Jumper Of Love<\/b> feel like a band designed to be either loved or hated. Granted, that\u2019s nothing terribly new with these sorts of low-slung indie-emo bands, but isolating this band in particular, there\u2019s something about just how enclosed and unassuming they come across that makes the division even more stark.<\/p>\n<p>Still, given that <i>\u2019So Divine\u2019<\/i> is their first album signed to Run To Cover, something must be clicking, but it\u2019s honestly difficult to see what that is. As if the divide wasn\u2019t highlighted enough, <i>\u2019So Divine\u2019<\/i>\u2019s general lack of motion or presence renders it a rather hollow listen, as <b>Horse Jumper Of Love<\/b> cycle through elements of indie-rock, dream-pop and indie-folk without much verve or drive. <i>\u2019Airport\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2019Volcano\u2019<\/i> certainly serve as an early prelude with slow, quiet guitar leads and Dimitri Giannopoulos\u2019 uncertain vocals, but it never really grows or evolves beyond those rather meagre foundations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Horse Jumper of Love - &quot;Nature&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vhWmRDebTo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, the whole thing seems like a momentous chore to get through; it\u2019s not all that long of an album, but with dreadful pacing that wades through its tar-thick atmosphere that rarely culminates in anything meaningful, the whole thing bottoms out in record time. There\u2019ll be an occasional highlight like the more wistful guitar and bass of <i>\u2019Nature\u2019<\/i>, but this is a remarkably barren album on the whole, trailing off most of the time before it really even suitably gets going.<\/p>\n<p>It culminates in a listen that rarely feels satisfying, and even when something does click, it\u2019s hitting the bare minimum of what\u2019s generally accepted for this brand of indie-rock. There\u2019s remarkably little to say about it as a result, as it simply dissolves from the memory the moment any single song is over. And after all of that is said, the most memorable thing about <b>Horse Jumper Of Love<\/b> by a considerable margin is their name.<\/p>\n<p>2\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;So Divine&#8217;<\/i> by <b>Horse Jumper Of Love<\/b> is out now on <b>Run For Cover Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Horse Jumper Of Love<\/b> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/horsejumperoflove\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/horsejol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/horsejumperoflove\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/horsejumperoflove.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Luke Nuttall (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuttall_luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;So Divine&#8217; culminates in a listen that rarely feels satisfying&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":84688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,17250,15029,822,17254],"class_list":["post-84687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-horse-jumper-of-love","tag-luke-nuttall","tag-run-for-cover-records","tag-so-divine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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