Julian Bozeman, Patrick Bozeman, Mercer West, Andy Pruett, David Specht, Javier Morales, Cameron Dye, Aaron Gentry, Christian Seklecki, Taylor Lee
Influences
Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Robert Wyatt, Kate Bush, Brian Wilson, Lindsday Buckingham, Basia, Donald Fagen, the Moffatts, Faust
Sounds Like
QUIET HOOVES – No Mare O’Mine (self-released) – I met Quiet Hooves at Good Records when Dark Meat Vomit Laser Galaxy Family Band performed a festive in-store on Saturday afternoon, May 18th. Quiet Hooves was the opening act the night prior at Lola’s in Fort Worth. What drew me to their album was the fully silkscreened/letter-press gatefold sleeve, the image of a skateboarding horse sporting bling and the hokey title “No Mare O’Mine”. Out of Athens, GA and led by brothers, Julian and Patrick Bozeman, Quiet Hooves also features five other musicians on their new album. Jazzy horns, vintage synths, a few toys as instruments and conversational lyrics that charmingly teeter between band members; Quiet Hooves are an eclectic and experimental ensemble that’s almost a low-fi Man-Man. For the lazy: a completely stripped down and calm version of Dark Meat or a less dramatic version of Polyphonic Spree. Listen to their trilogy of songs “your body”, “your troubles” and “your mother” to get a complete feel of this witty album.
Quiet Hooves play pop songs of a sort but make use of impressively thick textural spaces, of arrangements that refuse the basic geometries of the radio-friendly and bored.
There is a keen attention to sonic balance, to timbral weight and aural event, at the heart of the group’s eccentric bricolage-pop; the limber lineaments of Julian Bozeman’s songs slide through and butt up against an omnipresent and shimmering drone of horns, violin, electronics, and toy piano; and Mercer West’s agile and angular drumming serves as a medium through which the two sound-worlds -- organized in Stravinskian blocks or spatial compartments that would make Pierre Boulez smile (if indeed he ever smiles) -- can interact.
hey you guys are freakin awesome. i just got back from two weeks of camp with julian, and am listening to no mare o' mine right now. i absolutely love it. keep on rocking.
i met julian and patrick's parents at this bike ride at mount mitchell because my dad rode that bike ride with your dad. anyways they told us about your band and i looked it up and i actually love your music now.
look out for texas bigfootz! We will be channelingzz powervibez for your show in the boston woodz, and telling all our fellow Lodge memberz & Bostonian bigfoot enthusiasts to come and dig URz showz
oh, we bow to you. heartful thanks. your tunes are way rad, and slime or no slime i suspect space-time can conspire only so much longer to keep us seperate. heady collusions!
I saw you guys perform at the 40 watt the other night and just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the show. I like every one of your songs, they're all equally amazing :)
