Ahead of the release of their anticipated new album, Disaster Trick, out this Friday August 16th, Horse Jumper of Love release the final single ‘Word’, along with a striking video directed by Ben Turok.
The creative depth beneath the song is something to behold. Frontman Dimitri Giannopoulous explains that ‘Word’ is about “the distortion of reality, specifically how your sense of time and reality becomes distorted through someone else’s sense of it.”
“You try to fit into someone else’s idea of their future,” Dimitri continues, “because of love or indecision or insecurity. Maybe that someone is more confident than you and has power over you? An issue I’ve struggled with is feeling unworth of creating my own future, so I’ve relied on other people for guidance, whether it was family, friends, or lovers.
“This theme is boiled down in this song as a fight between two romantically involved people and how love and the anxiety associated with it is so powerful it can make you feel separate from the rest of the world. This distortion reveals itself in the lyric “Milking of the ax handle”, a literally image of distorted reality.
“I got the idea from the movie Häxan when they show a drawing of a witch milking an ax instead of a cow.”
When Disaster Trick is released on Friday, we can expect to identify a creative reset for the band, partly due to Giannopoulos’ recent sobriety. “This was the first album I’ve ever done where I went into it with a very clear mind,” he says. “In the past, we would just show up at a studio, drink, and record. Here, everything felt purposeful.”
Horse Jumper of Love are also heading to the UK on tour, and will be performing the following shows on British soil:
Aug 16 – Banquet Records – Kingston, UK ~
Aug 17 – Pie & Vinyl – Southsea, UK ~
Aug 18 – Rough Trade East – London, UK ~
Aug 19 – Rough Trade – Bristol, UK ~
Aug 20 – Rough Trade – Nottingham, UK ~
Aug 21 – Rough Trade – Liverpool, UK ~
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