At their record release party at The Lexington, Race Horses did what is surprisingly unusual: they played their new album, Furniture, in its entirety. As a result, a packed house enjoyed a thirty-five minute main set of sprightly pop followed by, an energetic encore of three oldies, including a brilliant ‘Pony’ from Goodbye Falkenburg.
The multi-instrumentalism of the band was at its peak with set closer ‘Old and New’, where the drummer played cornet, the keyboard/percussionist played violin, the multi-instrumentalist played harp and two additional musicians joined with french horn and bassoon. A talkative crowd hushed in genuine appreciation.
Opening acts were It Hugs Backs who played driving, shoegazey indie rock with a bit of Neu! going on and F.U.R.S. who looked to a very hung-over mind like Dry the River fronted by a young Neko Case (any dramatic missing of the boat is the responsibility of a low quality Czech lager versus the writer…). Both were appropriately well received.
Kevin
