Los Angeles’ Molly Horses are a post punk/noise rock band who have not-so-quietly been picking up steam across the city’s punk underground. Maybe you saw them at Echo Park Rising in 2024, caught them at other local watering holes like Genghis Cohen, Non Plus Ultra, or Redwood Bar, or maybe you heard about them when they shared their single “King Dundalk” last year.
Today, the band premiere a track from its forthcoming debut. The band say, “Sprawling, angular, and anxious, ‘BABBA’ is a song about abuse of power, and the imbalance of consequence for the rich and influential. Busy, desperate guitars fritter around spiraling verbal accounts of legal teams, company money, and … havarti? Yes, havarti. Jagged rhythms, quick stops and starts yank the listener in and out of certainty until the track crashes to an abrupt close.”
Singer/guitarist Harry James (they/them) and guitarist Cormac Shirer Brown played together in previous bands in their hometown of Portland, Maine. James met drummer Tim Wright (ex-Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and founding member of Baltimore’s Wilderness) on film sets on the east coast before relocating to Los Angeles while Brown met bassist Malcolm Watts (also from Maine) while working together at a cocktail bar in Los Angeles. The four came together in the summer of 2023 to create something angular, noisy, desperate, and methodical.
Drawing influence from the musical precision of Shellac, the DIY ethos of Minutemen, the biting lyricism of The Fall, and visceral discomfort of contemporaries Gilla Band, Molly Horses aims to set themselves apart from expectation. Having extensive backgrounds in sound and audio engineering, the band recorded its debut six-song EP Clang Clang at their home studio, Train Song, in Los Angeles.
Molly Horses has joined LA label Solid Brass Records to release Clang Clang and continue work on their forthcoming full-length album. The band will celebrate the release of Clang Clang on Friday July 25 with a Desert Daze sponsored release show at Gold Diggers with Guck (Three One G Records) and DJ Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile). Follow Molly Horses on Instagram for more details.
Photo courtesy of Molly Horses
