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Podcast Episode
Season
Thirteen
number
684
Type
Album Review
Post Date
11/7/2023

Dirty Three

684 Horse Stories by Dirty Three

Horse Stories

Label
Touch & Go
Release year
1996
Producer
Dirty Three
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Dirty Three's 1996 release Horse Stories is a challenging post-rock album, alternating between lush beauty and maelstroms of noise

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Leaving behind traditional rock 'n roll structures for more experimental avenues is nothing new for post-rock bands stretching back to The Velvet Underground drones or Brian Eno's ambient albums. It's stretches boundaries into free jazz, krautrock, math rock, and more often with a mechanical feel. That is quite the opposite of what the Dirty Three accomplish on their 1996 album Horse Stories, filled with the improvisations of Warren Ellis on violin, Mick Turners on guitars and bass, and Jim White on drum. The three-piece creates a wide cinematic scope, using space and slow building dynamics to evoke European folk ballads, traditional blues, classical music and much more.

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Songs in this episode

  • Intro -Sue's Last Ride
  • 19:39 - At The Bar
  • 28:03 - Warren's Lament
  • Outro - Red

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