
feeble little horse released their third album, bitknot, via Saddle Creek. The 11-track record is available for streaming and download, with physical copies scheduled for June 26 and pre-orders available. bitknot follows 2023’s Girl with Fish and was written, arranged, produced, and recorded by band members Sebastian Kinsler, Lydia Slocum, and Jake Kelley. The trio worked on the album from their respective homes and focused on contrasting digital and physical life, questioning hyper-individualism and self-sufficiency. The artwork reflects a search for new forms of interdependence and shared humanity. The album centers on the value of human connection and its alteration by isolating effects of capitalism, technology, and modern consumer culture, combining expansive arrangements, introspective lyricism, melodic hooks, and dense noise textures.
"The follow-up to 2023's excellent Girl with Fish, bitknot was written, arranged, produced, and recorded by band members Sebastian Kinsler, Lydia Slocum, and Jake Kelley. According to a press release, the trio, who spent time at each of their respective homes working on the record, found great interest in contrasting "the digital and the physical, questioning ideas of hyper-individualism and self-sufficiency." Even the record's artwork reflects this resulting search for "new forms of interdependence and shared humanity.""
"What we get with bitknot, then, is an album about the value of human connection and how its been forever altered by "the isolating effects of capitalism, technology, and modern consumer culture." The music itself is this unabashedly human reaction of sharp emotionality and genuine unpredictability, with the band "blending expansive arrangements, introspective lyricism, melodic hooks, and dense noise textures." bitknot is proof that the human spirit is very much alive and well amid the unbridled chaos of modernity."
"Said feeble little horse, "The album art is based on the coincidental core memory matrix, which was used in old computers to store memory/access information using 0s and 1s. Each core, or 'bit,' is accessed through the grid of wires, like a knot that stores secret details and memories.""
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