Melbourne duo Farewell Horizontal’s “Freud’s Shit Nephew” brings the energy with soaring reverb and heavy instrumentation. A culmination of psych and grunge alternative, this track bleeds post punk with its frantic and feverish mood. Farewell Horizontal are Pat Walker on guitar, bass, vocals and Lauren Lime on drums; two musicians who manage to pack a lot of power into their raw sound. The song energetically opens up their recently released second album “An Argument With An Idiot,” 10 tracks available now for your listening pleasure. In hearing this music, it is clear that these two have an eclectic taste and their wide range of influences subconsciously come through in their own compositions. Punk, grunge, glam, power pop, garage, psych, they know what’s good and therefore know how to really make the goods. The music has heart with intellect and humor graciously peppered in. Power through the pandemic with Farewell Horizontal, and start it off with “Freud’s Shit Nephew.”
-Alyssa Holland
-Alyssa Holland
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"Guitar driven indie pop revivalists"
Farewell Horizontal are Pat Walker (guitar, bass, vocals) and Lauren Lime (drums). A duo based in Melbourne with a cache of over 200 songs written by Pat between 2012 and 2019 and recorded sporadically over the last few years while Pat recovered from a life changing lung transplant. The plan is to release a new album every time they've got another ten songs they're happy with.
First album Avoiding the Void, drew attention straight away with its 90s guitar jangle and nostalgic lyrical imagery.
Austin Town Hall reviewed Where Did All The Fun Go To Die by calling it "a track you never want to end; you just want the song to hang around in the aura behind you, lifting your spirits ever so carefully".
US blog Come Here Floyd called the band "a delight for any occasion of your life".
South Africa's Janglepophub said "Farewell Horizontal arrive like jangly superheroes with their dulcet mix of Melbourne’s Dolewave and dreamy, fuzz-laden sparsity."
Enter 2021 and the release of An Argument with An Idiot, a ten track album of absurdist humour, subversive ruminations and boredom induced observations. Pat leads us into his new reality with an internal monologue tracked in indiepop guitar shimmers and upbeat drum fills.
First single and album opener, the 6 minute opus Freud's Shit Nephew sounds like a grunge induced fever dream, while album closer Doesn't Matter, No One Cares is surprisingly uplifting in its acceptance of the modern realities of capturing everything, and remembering nothing. Ultimately, this second album will leave you wondering, what idiot is Pat arguing with anyway? But also, Farewell Horizontal want you to know that it's all going to be OK.
Farewell Horizontal , psych post punk, grunge alternative, raw post punk, garage rock, trippy proto punk tones, “An Argument With An Idiot,” sophomore album
Farewell Horizontal are Pat Walker (guitar, bass, vocals) and Lauren Lime (drums). A duo based in Melbourne with a cache of over 200 songs written by Pat between 2012 and 2019 and recorded sporadically over the last few years while Pat recovered from a life changing lung transplant. The plan is to release a new album every time they've got another ten songs they're happy with.
First album Avoiding the Void, drew attention straight away with its 90s guitar jangle and nostalgic lyrical imagery.
Austin Town Hall reviewed Where Did All The Fun Go To Die by calling it "a track you never want to end; you just want the song to hang around in the aura behind you, lifting your spirits ever so carefully".
US blog Come Here Floyd called the band "a delight for any occasion of your life".
South Africa's Janglepophub said "Farewell Horizontal arrive like jangly superheroes with their dulcet mix of Melbourne’s Dolewave and dreamy, fuzz-laden sparsity."
Enter 2021 and the release of An Argument with An Idiot, a ten track album of absurdist humour, subversive ruminations and boredom induced observations. Pat leads us into his new reality with an internal monologue tracked in indiepop guitar shimmers and upbeat drum fills.
First single and album opener, the 6 minute opus Freud's Shit Nephew sounds like a grunge induced fever dream, while album closer Doesn't Matter, No One Cares is surprisingly uplifting in its acceptance of the modern realities of capturing everything, and remembering nothing. Ultimately, this second album will leave you wondering, what idiot is Pat arguing with anyway? But also, Farewell Horizontal want you to know that it's all going to be OK.
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