Horsegirl featured here for the very first time a month ago in various artists/new releases post. They're back today in their own right with the fourth (and presumably final) single to drop in advance of their album, Phonetics On and On, which arrives on Valentine's Day.
With Cate Le Bon at the controls - itself a big draw - the promo blurb enthuses that "the songs are a testament to experimenting with space and texture while maintaining a pop song at the core."
On the basis of the four pre-release songs - 2468, Julie, Switch Over and now Frontrunner - they're not wrong. The latter is the most stripped down of the bunch, an acoustic-driven number with percussive twangs and vocals that border on indifference, but which suit the narrative.
Not groundbreaking perhaps but enjoyable nevertheless.
Not sure I'd agree with the implicit message re: apples in the video, though. Not rinsing your apples before eating is not exactly sticking it to The Man, is it? And no, dropping your apple into a water-filled pot hole in the middle of the road does not count as 'wash before use'.
fff is available from all the usual places including Bandcamp. You can catch Horsegirl playing live in Manchester, London, Glasgow and Bristol in late June.
