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Rating: "Infinite Arms" was released on May 18, 2010, and I discovered it six months later. It was a quick process that unfolded immediately after as I read, watched, and listened to a lot of material about this shy Seattle group.
The Band Of Horses are not unknowns, however.
Their first work received success among the public and critics: "Everything all the time" was created with the valuable but not indispensable collaboration of co-founder Mat Brooke, who would leave the band shortly after to dedicate himself to a new project called "Grand Archive".
The cards shuffled, some left and some joined, and "Cease to Begin" was released, with the predictable result of being a transition album, victim of comparisons.
Following in the footsteps of splendid tracks like "The Funeral", "Is There A Ghost", "No One's Gonna Love You", already known to many for their "appearances" in films and TV series, comes the third album.
Infinite Arms caught my fancy at the first listen. It's certainly not the Horses' look that fascinates me... rather, it's "Factory", which opens with a string orchestra telling the story of an elevator, a metaphor for life's ups and downs; it’s two delightful ballads like "Blue Beard" and "On My Way Back Home"; it's "Dilly", "Laredo", and "Compliments", tracks infused with energy, light-heartedness, and equal awareness of musical ability; it's "Evening Kitchen", which I suggest listening to in reverent silence in the live version From Grand Central Terminal in New York to fully enjoy the touching interplay of voices between bandleader Ben Bridwell and Tyler Ramsey, the group's guitarist and the song's author.
Undecided whether to idealize these infinite arms as music and words that fight our inner wars or as infinite arms that lovingly embrace you, I can assert that I adore these horses, and I don't care about those of the past. Rather, I'm curious to discover those of the future, on which I would gladly bet knowing that they will not be the ones to cross the finish line, but certain to witness an exciting race.
And I'm certainly not the only one who thinks this way, given the Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album (a category rightfully won by their cousins The Black Keys) as well as the recent ASCAP Vanguard Award, an award given to them on May 3, 2011, by the American Society Of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Go Horses, go!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
07 Dilly (03:31)
ust the mentioning of (Just the mention of)
such a simple phrase.
Are we passengers on (seperated trains)
separated trains?
Take the mask off (Take the mask of)
when you speak to me.
And I'm alright to go on (It's the little things)
it's the little things.
But anymore, you've become.
A ? to everyone.
To everyone.
I'm reeling in the wrong day getting behind ?
Why didn't i think "what in the world?"
It really took a tall one to see it
Two to believe it
Three to just get in the way
All your life to think of (All your life think of),
what a mess you made.
Dig a hole in the ground (for your wedding ring)
for your wedding ring.
Rainmaker call (the Rainmaker call)
throw your hammer down.
And everything that I know (Can't remember now)
can't remember now.
Anymore, you've become.
Inherent of another one.
Another one.
I reeling in the wrong days, getting behind
Why didn't I think "what in the world?"
It really took a tall one to see it
Two to believe it.
Three to just get in the way.
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