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Race Horses Debut Single 'CAKE'

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"While it's easy to see why this Welsh four-piece have been compared to Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, this fast paced set is delivered with such force that theri wonky pop songs take on the gritty backbone of 60's garage. Complex four part harmonies give them the air of a creepy barbershop quartet, while a self guitar ode to Glenn Millar's "Pennsylvania 6-5000" leads into an operatic solo with the confidence of a backwater "Bohemian Rhapsody". Race Horses are fearless experimenters and the fast-slow-fast-again approach keep the audience shouting and dancing till the feedback fades" NME LIVE from LONDON, Cargo

"It's not just a willingness to sing in their native tongue or the waft of jazz cigarettes that puts Aberystwyth's Race Horses on a similar footing to Super Furry Animals. Like that band, Race Horses have a talent for multi-coloured, gonzoid indie pop that's as ambitious as it is catchy. And like The Coral or British Sea Power at their most unhinged, R H's crooked, breezily psychedelic tunes are informed by the foursome's rejection of "reality, realism and music and words that are too literal" Still, debut single "Cake" has double meaning. As loopy as its cover - a collage of trifles, sea anemones, fried eggs and an Egyptian pyramid - its not a naughty reference to the "drug" made notorious tby Brass Eye, but a chugging, hand-clapping celebration of the joys of baking. Fun but not twee, it bodes well for their forthcoming album Goodbye Falkenburg" METRO

"First of all this has some wonderful artwork that will have you drooling before you even hear a note and of course with a title such as 'Cake' it's not hard to workout just what Race Horses are singing about. Now is it just me or is something going on in Wales that allows for the churning out of some rather peculiar yet extraordinary bands and chiefly I'm thinking of the Super Furries but with a little leg up I could see Race Horses up on that perch alongside them one listen to 'Cake' will confirm it for you all I'm sure, there's even the Welsh language b-side that I have no idea what it is going on in but it's a cacophony of brilliance. 'Cake' is full of bonkers psychedelia and trip-tastic Coral-esque beauty that drills along with some wonderful Coxon inspired guitar riffs that seem so basic but really pulverise the song into a new stratosphere. Inspiration must come from plenty of those early 60's sounds of The Byrds and Beach Boys but there's a freshness in the way the music is delivered even the vocal delivery that's pure Costello" HANGOUT.ALTSOUNDS.COM

Either the Welsh are a nation of oddballs (let’s just use the entire nation to make a point shall we, I never thought a good bit of generalism should get in the way of a rant) or we’ve only ever scratched the surface of what Welsh indie can do. And though I am duty bound to point out that Race Horses share vocal sensibilities and a refreshingly psychedelic approach with SFA, the point is that this is a song about cake. One which begins with a Lynchian bit of Red Roomed backwardsness, morphs into a Libertines-as-sung-by-Gorky’s-style chorus and then snowballs into a beautifully fuzzy, indie-pop tune about forgoing speedballs and cheeky Vimtos for a nice Victoria Sponge. Proper ace. DROWNEDINSOUND.COM

"Is this the greatest Welsh song about baking? Possibly. Recorded in a Smurf-like Eco Village in North Wales, Cake is deranged midget of a song, all Beatlesque chord progressions and Dada doo-woppery. There’s plenty of retro hooks, but the real charm of song is its absurd lyrics and deranged delivery, with Race Horses coming across like a cross between the Small Faces and the League of Gentlemen. This a song that is guaranteed to have you singing its chorus hours after you’ve heard it. Prepare to sound like an idiot"WWW.NOIZEMAKESENEMIES.CO.UK

"Being a naive sort I applaud these rather talented Welsh popsters and their wish to proclaim their sweet toothed giddiness to the world. There will be those, weened on Brass Eye, who'll hear the word cake and presume the rapscallions are actually partaking of Hattie Jacques Pretentious Cheese Wog or Joss Ackland's Spunky Backpack and attempting to poison the minds of our youth... Either way the two tracks here are bloody marvellous. Cake is a mystical psychedelic pop beast, all eastern guitars, backward vocals and ooh be doo harmonies. B-side the partly Welsh sung Kinks-esq Cacen Mamgu is even better though with its vaudeville delivery, doleful brass and looped quirky effects. A stunning debut release" WWW.SOUNDSXP.COM

"Not so much a celebration of Chris Morris’ twisted genius, rather a tawdry tale of a lad who swaps hedonism for…you guessed it, cake. Sweet romance this, all sixth form drumming and Gorky’s vibes – and that’s not bad thing. Double A-side ‘Cacen Mamgu’ is a pseudo-Welsh nightmare; written by Mei after too little sleep it sounds like Race Horses, like all good bands, have a soft spot for Mark E Smith and the Fall" BEARDED MAGAZINE

"This debut double A-sider from four piece Race Horses shows great promise. Cake might be a bit self indulgent in its attempts to scupper convention, buts its tale of choosing cooking over cocaine is delivered with indie perfection. Cacen Mamgu is a bilingual treat that switches between bouncy stabs, samples and catchy horns BUZZ MAGAZINE

From Wales, Fantastic Plastic have hit the spot once more with this tuneful quartet. Race Horse make their home town of Llewelyn sound like it has a surf filled beach, no doubt with Brian Wilson ensconced as honorary life guard; but either way their sun filled sparkling pop is sufficiently lo-fi to compliment the twangy shuffling of the guitar. “Cake” is a fresh sounding collision of clean guitar chords and supplementary harmonies, but it’s the backwards feedback that they’ve used as a little hookline, that proves they’re a little bit out of the ordinary. It’d be easy to make a comparison to SFA, but there’s something lighter and even more fun (if that is at all possible) about this new Welsh gaggle of wunderkidsMUSIC-DASH.CO.UK

Race Horses ‘cake’ (fantastic plastic). One of several releases found to be teasing our turntable for the best part of the day is this - the debut release from lysergic Welsh loons Race Horses. Both culled from the bands forthcoming debut full length ‘goodbye falkenburg’, ‘cake’ slyly nods to the Ankst records roster of yore with elements of the usual suspects Gorky’s and SFA never far from recall, though scratch a little deeper and you’ll find a strangely becoming soft psyche brew fermenting between the grooves as though passing for some long lost soundtrack for a throwaway first generation Brit wave hippy chic flick from the late 60’s as laid down by a quickly drilled studio session shimmy between Traffic and the Chocolate Watchband, mind you award yourselves bonus points if like us you’re on more than one occasion throughout this cutie alerted to images of the Rutles doing the Who. Better still looms over on the flip - ‘cacen magmu’ which according to the press releases was meant to have been conceived as a bad trip, apparently a tale of a young boy who gets possessed by the evil spirit of his Gran who ultimately blows his brains out because his life is so cack - that’ll be cack not cake - though we are thinking perhaps we were right the second time of asking - bad trip / cake - I’m bloody wasted me. Anyhow better than your usual trite and mundane boy meets girl live happy ever after tra la la la sickly happy pop affair, though admittedly this nugget does have a touch of haunted house / hall of mirrors / freak circus macabre about its wares - military brass bands, backward loops and hallucinogenic motifs if we didn’t know better we’d be saying it was some acid dropped gathering of mid career Kinks types and Alan Price. Goes without saying that its much deserving of hi-fi hammering - and on Fantastic Plastic to - the erstwhile home of pristinely baked pop gemsLOSINGTODAY.COM