Comments on: Rock Plaza Central – Are We Not Horses?

By: Track by Track :: Rock Plaza Central – …At The Moment of our Most Needing | The Line Of Best Fit

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:02:42 +0000

[...] their debut album, Are We Not Horses, a couple of years ago, to critical acclaim not just on a very young TLOBF, but also on Pitchfork. They’ve shed a few members, left their record label, but have [...]

By: Rock Plaza Central sign to Paper Bag records for new releases | The Line Of Best Fit

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:35:31 +0000

[...] critically acclaimed Are We Not Horses? (which we reviewed way back at the start of the site here). Unlike its predecessor the album steers away from a concept but is heavily influenced by William [...]

By: jamesewan (demob happy)

jamesewan (demob happy) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:57:50 +0000

Nice to see you big this one up, it seemed to fall under the radar a bit but it’s a weird little gem. There is a little of the Flaming Lips’ cosmic wonder, some of the Polyphonic Spree’s barbed evangelism, and a little of Calexico’s rust and dust choked imagery. Like Modest Mouse, Rock Plaza Central also look to Tom Waits as a reference point, but with less of Isaac Brock’s affectation. But ‘Are We Not Horses?’ is more than a sum of any recognisable influences, an album with its own tangible mini-world, the forsaken border country depicted in the novels of Cormac McCarthy, all Mexican funeral marches and mescal-addled campfire storytelling. For all the contrivance and histrionics though, it is an album of intimate folk and beautiful musicianship – replete with horns, violin, piano and jazzy percussion that scuttles like a scorpian. Love it.

By: 20 Questions With…Rock Plaza Central at thelineofbestfit.com

20 Questions With…Rock Plaza Central at thelineofbestfit.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:51:40 +0000

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