Horsie (Vinyl LP)

Back with a surprise second album for 2024, Homeshake has announced Horsie. Citing lush and wide-ranging influences such as Four Tet, My Bloody Valentine, and D'Angelo on this new record, Homeshake's Peter Sagar explores themes of loneliness and anxiety, all viewed through the complex lens of returning back to life as an entertainer post-Covid. Recent single Nothing 2 See woozes and wobbles its way, reminiscent of some of Connan Mockasin's dreamier moments, getting us well and truly in the mood for the rest. - Flying Out

Following March's CD Wallet, HOMESHAKE presents his second album of 2024, Horsie. Written and recorded at his home studio in Toronto, it explores Sagar’s complicated feelings about returning to live performance. Deepening his relationship to loneliness and anxiety, the record examines those themes in the context of touring.

Horsie employs various textures influenced by artists like Four Tet and My Bloody Valentine, the rhythmic forms of D’Angelo and Sade, and moments of ambient Americana found in the works of Ry Cooder. The cornerstone pieces of gear used were an Ensoniq EPS and Roland Juno 60, though the album also employs a great deal of electric guitar, along with his beloved SP-404. He maintains a philosophy of “less is more,” finding the simplest route from one point to another.

HOMESHAKE, the musical project of Peter Sagar, is an expression of adjustment and contortion within the world as he experiences it and the sounds he wants to hear in it. Hallucinatory and heartbreaking in its cries for connection, Sagar’s sound is often imitated but has proven to be entirely his own; textural and profound, uniquely honoring his diverse influences but adrift within its own transportive imagination.

Tracklist:

1. Ravioli
2. Horsie
3. Dinner Plate
4. Blunt Talk
5. On A Roll
6. Smiling
7. Nothing 2 See
8. Simple
9. Easier Now
10. Believe
11. Empty Lot
12. Ice Tea