by Olivier Constant
Could the band push their experimental hardcore one step further on their new full length? The answer is a big fat ‘Yes’. Horse The band invented the Nintendocore genre and probably they will stay the one and only representative of it. On ‘Desperate Living’ the band mixes up extreme hardcore, with twisted synthesizers and some melodic parts. A well known recipe for some years, but in the blasting opener ‘Cloudwalker’, the wicked ‘Science Police’ and the groovy ‘Big Business’ they sound like a bunch of lunatics that have been waiting way too long to be released.
Nevertheless, the danceable and heavy riffing, the dynamic rhythm section and the bone crushing vocals are once again not enough to keep a whole album exciting. Therefore the song structures are sometimes too complex. Apart from all the fun the band has to give some extra attention to more continuous song writing. Horse The Band still stays one of the most promising bands, but on a next album a change to a more straightforward sound should give the songs more power.
Score: 7 out of 10
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