Horseback
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Bio
Jenks Miller's psychedelic/drone project, Horseback, produced an avant-garde sleeper-hit with 2007's Impale Golden Horn (Burly Time Records/Holidays for Quince Records). That record, which Aquarius Records' review staff tentatively described as "the best drone record of the year" upon its release, boasted four lengthy tracks, each one a vibrant, kaleidoscopic journey toward a manic, inevitable nirvana. More melodic and accessible than most noise records and noisier than most dream-pop records, Horseback's debut carved itself a niche somewhere between Merzbow and Stars of the Lid, offering a refreshing sound to fans across many sub-genres of psychedelic music.
2009 saw the release of Horseback's MILH IHVH, a 7" record (Turgid Animal) and The Invisible Mountain, a full-length CD (Utech Records), both of which explore a darker, noisier, and more agressive side of drone music that explicitly references harsh noise, black metal and doom. Though divergent composition and recording processes yield very different textures in the two recordings, both records are intended to open portals into a kind of mythic imagination or meditative self-awareness.
From reverbnation.com
