“Sun Poisoning” features lyrics such as, “The timing of light is always right, the sensitivity / Will make whirring machines that take the place of your eyes” and “I couldn’t stand to / Be the ghost in you / I couldn’t touch you / Without hurting the bruises.” The jump from “DIRT” to “Sun Poisoning” is one of my favorite moments of the album. The slow drumming and drawn-out guitar strumming at the beginning of the track feel surreal, and once the song hits its 2:57 mark, an insane drop arrives each time I hear it, I become slightly numb. The following track, “DIRT,” is my second favorite song off the album. Dont mind portishead but this is way better, so mellow, so soothing.” In the YouTube comment section of this song, user Nigel Baldin writes, “Sounds like portishead. It’s composed of synth beats and ambient background noises. The sixth track, “I Want To Paint Horses… And To Have A Horse,” serves as an instrumental to the album. The album’s fourth track, “Spaceman,” features lyrics such as, “I talk with your teeth / Kiss you through my shirt / Spaceman feels good,” a sort of ode to teenage love in all of its messiness and confusion. “July 5th” is undoubtedly the most “slowcore- esque ” song of this entire album it’s heavy, dreary and is a song I often fall asleep to. The following tracks, “July 5th” and “Bagel Breath,” reveal the band’s great instrumentation. Goodness takes time and requires much patience. Love is a garden - there is no feasible or healthy way to speed up the growth of your goods. Love has played an integral part in my teenage years, and coming to terms with heartbreak and letdowns is something I make sure to do when things go awry. The opening track, “Ugly Brunette,” embodies the essential Horse Jumper of Love sound as Giannopoulos sings, “I’ll be patient / With you that’s the way / The garden grows.” My dad has always taught me that good things take time, that you can’t rush greatness. There is a wide variety of instrumentals featured on this album, and the muffled singing provides listeners with a sense of intimacy, almost as if lead singer Dimitri Giannopoulos is performing right in front of you. “Horse Jumper Of Love” is a true rock masterpiece.
This album was there for me in this time of self-discovery, and I will be eternally grateful for that. After I healed from this all, I came to love who I am. I needed help from others to build me back up, and that’s what I ended up having to seek out. I’d blame myself for so many of the emotions I experienced, and yet, I deserved none of this self-hatred. I used to beat myself up over the smallest of things, constantly finding reasons to not give myself credit for all that I accomplished. I like to think of the cactus as my teenage heart.
Most of this time was filled with listening to music and reading books, and I can confidently say that my enjoyment of solitude has shaped me into who I am today. I gained an emotional intelligence I would not have otherwise acquired if not for my daily secluded time. With this newfound desire to be alone came a greater understanding of the things I stuffed in the back of my brain. As I approached the age of 15, I began to value my own company. In my early teenage years, I avoided confronting my emotions if I was feeling anything other than happiness, I’d find a way to keep my mind busy by thinking about something else. The business of life consumes every single one of us and never allows us to sit and just think with ourselves. We go through so many emotionally turbulent moments in our youth, and yet we never, not once, pause and heal from them. I left the pieces of the pot and the dirt on the floor for weeks, until my mom finally picked it up.” I kept the needles in my fist all afternoon. The poor fucking cactus didn’t do anything. The words on the album cover speak for themself: “There was a tiny cactus on my desk.
Their self-titled second studio album, released on March 11, 2016, has had an unparalleled grip on my late teenage years - this album changed my life, and also changed the way I view rock music. A band I’ve closely followed for a number of years, Horse Jumper of Love has never failed at providing me with comforting music filled with relatable lyrics about love, loss and hope. Horse Jumper of Love, the Boston-based slowcore band, has most certainly contributed to the indie-rock music scene in the second half of the 2010s.
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