Horse Apples and the unanswered dream folk questions of "High Times, New England"

 

"help me figure it out..."

A follow up to Horse Apples's full length 14 track 2021 album "Swarm of New Flies" (Limited Edition and available on HA's Bandcamp) is the garden rock wanderlust of "High Times, New England". Horse Apples often times bathes his stories in electronica, pushing atmospheres with synthesizers and ambient sounds but here returns to a more acoustic driven narrative. "High Times, New England", in fact, has a country folk sway, lovely pearly electric guitar sounds over an easy drum shuffle that feel more pedal steel than indie rockish and intimate vox that are full of longing and dreams, some realized and some not. The result feels like open skies while lying in a sleeping bag in the chill of the night, of contemplating the end of love and new beginnings and not knowing all the answers or reasons. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

Horse Apples · Horse Apples - High Times, New England

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https://soundcloud.com/horse-apples

https://horseapples.bandcamp.com/album/swarm-of-new-flies-2


Experimental Stoned-to-the-Bone Bedroom Pop, improvisational, NY ambient weird


"High Times, New England" is about love ending and starting new beginnings. Lyrics:

You miss the days when you would try

distinguish need from desire

in the end, what won?

I feel you out there on the ledge

as you’re hedgin’ all your bets

in the end, who won?

help me figure it out

You heard I found someone new

is she as beautiful as you?

did she say “I do”?

What were the words you once said?

did you mean something instead?

did you lie back then?

help me figure it out

high times in New England

There wasn’t anyone to thank

or else I was drawing blanks

when you left home

you did the dirty work for me

and now that I’m alive and free

what was blind now sees

I’m done figuring it out

high times in New England


Horse Apples, New York based, "High Times, New England", love lost, new beginnings, garden rock, folk rock, bedroom pop, romantic, stoned to the bone rock, EP "Swarm of New Flies", beautiful