New York-via-Chicago trio Horsegirl are back with a new single today, the mechanically-inclined “Switch Over”. It’s the third song released from their upcoming Cate Le Bon-produced album, Phonetics On and On. Following in the footsteps of previous singles “2468” and “Julie“, this new one exposes and examines the thrumming and insistent beat of its heart, which marches like clockwork across the call-and-response vocals between singer-guitarists Nora Cheng and Penelope Lowenstein. Drummer Gigi Reece keeps that tick tock movement going as the guitars rattle across this fascinating minimalist landscape. It’s stark and strangely elastic in execution, exhibiting a wobbly eccentrism that pleads with us to disentangle ourselves from the world and revel in our own illumination.
The accompanying video is directed by Guy Kozak and works with the idea of realities existing within realties, as the band watches themselves perform in the same room.
Watch the video below.
Phonetics On and On is due out Feb 14 via Matador. You can pre-order the album here. Follow the band on Facebook, X, and Instagram.
