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The monolithically heavy, uniquely mercurial UK quartet Sugar Horse are proud to announce their new album Grand Scheme Of Things, to be released 4th October via Pelagic Records.

On Grand Scheme Of Things, Sugar Horse comment: This album was intended to be a sideways step. A move away from the kind of thing that is expected of us if anything is at all. What I mean by that, is the songs are more direct. They take a much shorter amount of time to get to the point. We also wanted to make this one noticeably less Metal. While we love being a bit boneheaded and confrontational, we definitely wanted to explore the more melodic, song-based side of the bands sound. Normally youd see shortened song structures and more singing and think Oh these guys are going for wanna get on the radio and make millions of bloodstained pounds. Wellyoure very much entitled to think that if you wish, but it felt like more of a songwriting challenge than anything else to be honest. Weve done the whole drawn out, endless Space Rock thing a good few times now and it wouldve been easy to rest on those laurels. Do something were comfortable with. Alas, that is not really the point of this band. Wed much prefer to make it difficult and take the long route.

Formed in what is now considered to be the utopian dreamscape of 2015, the band grew slowly at first. Far from fully formed, but steadily gaining limbs, heads and vital organs. Finally, 2019s DRUJ followed swiftly by 2020s DRUGS saw them hit on a relentless stride of eclectic releases that simultaneously confused and entranced audiences.

2021 saw the band encamp in a former Lutheran church to record their debut album, The Live Long After, releasing it via Brightons own Small Pond Records. Publications such as The Quietus describing the record as shift[ing] dispositions fluidly, taking elements of extreme aggression alongside floaty Post-Metal and Echoes & Dust calling it a monumental achievement. The album took every disparate element that Sugar Horse previously employed and amplified them, while juxtaposing each next to each other, with genuinely unpredictable and exciting consequences.

2022 saw no relent from the bands fast paced release schedule, as they put out an anthemic shoegaze single in Pictures Of Dogs Having Sex, followed swiftly by their collaborative Waterloo Teeth EP. A release that paired Sugar Horses terrifying eclecticism with guest appearances from twelve other artists in just four short(ish) songs. Each artist coming from a different area of the modern British music scene, whether that be world conquering post-punk bass lines from IDLES Adam Devonshire, heavy titans Conjurer and Pupil Slicers throat crippling wails, or a shredding guitar solo from Biffy Clyro/Oceansizeaxe wielder Mike Vennart. The EP packs in an albums worth of genre mutilating twists and turns into just 25 minutes of music.

CD Tracklisting

1. The Grand Scheme of Things
2. The Shape of ASMR to Come
3. Corpsing
4. Mulletproof
5. Spit Beach
6. New Dead Elvis
7. Jefferson Aeroplane Over the Sea
8. Office Job Simulator
9. Space Tourist