All The Queen's Horses and the naked dark passion of "The Ides Of March"

 

"All my wings were damaged. all my scars were unsung..."

So often now, bathing a lead vocal in a wash of effects from distortion to mid or high level eq to give it that transistor tones, slight cloning, mirrored pitch shifting and the dreaded vocodor effect seems to be the flavor of the day but on All The Queen's Horses' darkly drawn "The Ides Of March", Cork artist Sean William Murphy bleeds vocally naked and bare. His performance, bolstered by some beautiful backing vox, is so incredibly intimate and passionate. More than once, with sad and powerful folk orchestration, a tumultuous combination of piano, cello, synths and drums as a lush bed for his pained performance, I have felt chills as goose bumps raised on my skin. 

"The Ides Of March" is from All The Queen's Horses' upcoming album ‘The Dark Below & The Isle of Dogs’, having recently signed and teamed with Echoism and Motor Music.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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All The Queen’s Horses is a dark indie project by Cork artist Sean William Murphy. A signature blitz of sadness, darkness and poetry-esque lyrics to a backdrop of piano, cello and some Joy Division synths. All The Queen’s Horses recently signed and teamed up with Echoism and Motor Music to release the new upcoming album, ‘The Dark Below & The Isle of Dogs’. The poetry of Leonard Cohen, the madness of Tom Waits and the intensity of Joy Division with subtle hints of Bright Eyes and Damien Rice. A Hieronymus Bosch hellscape transmuted to music, but there’s more, like Freidrich Neitze taking a day off to pick flowers, making sure he wasn’t followed. All The Queen’s Horses’ gothic folktronica evokes a desperate and beautiful darkness, a world we can escape to, where our fears and desires intertwine like rope around the subject of an Araki photograph. A very unique, out of box experience for those that enjoy different takes on the singer songwriter genre. After a year of global turmoil singer-songwriter Sean Murphy, has channeled this swirling darkness into a hauntingly beautiful album: ‘The Dark Below & The Isle of Dogs’. Originally from Cork, Ireland, living in Dublin and having spent the last 12 months in London, Sean Murphy has seen this last disastrous year through the lens of an artist. Working under the moniker ‘ALL THE QUEEN`S HORSES’, Murphy has crafted a raw, guttural and emotive response to what he has observed as a darkness bleeding across the land and in to all of our lives. A twisted narrative is weaved in folktronica-rock; a patchwork of poetry, cello, synths and mournful pianos. A kind of warped, contemporary tapestry, the story of 2020 unfolds in low light and fun-house mirrors.

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