{"id":96331,"date":"2024-06-04T22:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=96331"},"modified":"2024-06-04T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:17:53","slug":"sugar-horse-office-job-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/sugar-horse-office-job-simulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Horse Explore the &#8220;imbalance of power&#8221; on &#8216;Office Job Simulator&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doomgaze greats\u00a0<strong>Sugar Horse<\/strong> continue to tease their upcoming <em>\u2018Grand Scheme Of Things\u2019<\/em> album. While the album won&#8217;t be released till October 4th, that hasn&#8217;t stopped the quartet from a track titled<em> &#8216;Office Job Simulator&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Layered sludgy elements, vocalist\/guitarist Ashley Tubb&#8217;s towering vocals, and sharp, gritty blasts wrapped in a sea of heavy psychedelic shoegaze, it&#8217;s another example of\u00a0<strong>Sugar Horse<\/strong>&#8216;s mesmerising style.\u00a0 Within all of that, there is Tubb&#8217;s lyrical angst against the social imbalance of mourning public figures and <em>&#8220;regular everyday people&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Now people that know me definitely wouldn\u2019t describe me as a supporter of the British monarchy\u2026.however\u2026a few months after the death of my father, The Queen died. First of all, I wasn\u2019t bothered by this\u2026then after about two straight days of non-stop press coverage, it started really getting to me,&#8221;<\/em> commented Tubb when discussing the inspiration behind the track. <em>&#8220;Why does this random woman deserve weeks of non-stop press coverage and faux-outpourings of 3rd hand grief, when regular everyday people (like my dad) are more or less ignored? Life carries on as if nothing has happened. It\u2019s kind of disgusting to me in a way. The imbalance of power. Think of this as our comrades&#8217; call to arms.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Office Job Simulator&#8217;<\/em> is the third track to be shared from\u00a0\u2018<em>Grand Scheme Of Things\u2019<\/em>, following <em>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/sugar-horse-the-shape-of-asmr-to-come\/\">The Shape Of ASMR To Come<\/a>\u2019<\/em>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/song-of-the-day-sugar-horse-new-dead-elvis\/\"><em>&#8216;New Dead Elvis&#8217;<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<em>&#8216;Grand Scheme Of Things&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0is released on October 4th on <strong>Pelagic Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sugar Horse - Office Job Simulator\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vA86Qli06w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In additional news,\u00a0<strong>Sugar Horse<\/strong> have announced they will be playing two UK dates with\u00a0<strong>Pijn<\/strong> and <strong>Hippotraktor<\/strong> later this year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #000; text-align: center;\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-96332\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sugar-Horse-and-Pijn-707x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"1000\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sugar-Horse-and-Pijn-707x1000.jpg 707w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sugar-Horse-and-Pijn-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sugar-Horse-and-Pijn-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sugar-Horse-and-Pijn.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>October<br \/>\n31st Downstairs At The Dome, London<br \/>\nNovember<br \/>\n1st Damnation Festival (no Pijn)<br \/>\n2nd Damnation Festival (Pijn only)<br \/>\n2nd Cardiff &#8211; The Moon (no Pijn)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><em>&#8216;Office Job Simulator&#8217;<\/em> Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>Choirs of seraphim<br \/>\nStruck dumb<br \/>\ntongue-tied<br \/>\nOne just rank and file<br \/>\nUnwashed<br \/>\nUnfound<\/p>\n<p>Hide in plain site<br \/>\nOpen wound<br \/>\nLive on through memory<br \/>\nMake this your tomb<\/p>\n<p>Hills of heroin<br \/>\nSink boats<br \/>\nSucked down<br \/>\nTongues our medicine<br \/>\nUnsung<br \/>\nProfound<\/p>\n<p>Unmarked grave<br \/>\nNo subsumed<br \/>\nLive on through memory<br \/>\nMake this your tomb<\/p>\n<p>Though he comes to greet us all<br \/>\nFanfares sound for those they choose<br \/>\nAll seems fair in love and war<br \/>\nFor those unfound, and unmarked tomb<\/p>\n<p>Though these grains of our sand free fall<br \/>\nKnow your toil in these days meant more<\/p>\n<p>A name in the mouth of a thousand tongues to come<br \/>\nA piece of a puzzle when all is said and done<br \/>\nOne voice in a choir that screams in unison<br \/>\nA thunderstorm to drown out all they\u2019ve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ll also be playing some shows with Pijn later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[17597],"class_list":["post-96331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sugar-horse"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sugar Horse Explore the &quot;imbalance of power&quot; on &#039;Office Job Simulator&#039; - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"They&#039;ll also be playing some shows with Pijn later this year. 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