feeble little horse
This event will take place in EartH Hall.
feeble little horse are naturally delighted to present their third full-length LP, bitknot.
The album was written, arranged, produced, and recorded by Sebastian Kinsler, Lydia Slocum, and Jake Kelley across their respective homes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A spirited investigation into the unnatural space created between human nature and a culture of convenience — a synthesis of dirt and digital — bitknot by feeble little horse creates a language in which one can re-imbue a sanctity of interdependence away from consumptive “self-sufficiency” and materialism.
The album art is based on the coincidental core memory matrix, used in early computers to store and access information through 0s and 1s. Each core, or “bit,” is accessed through a grid of wires — like a knot that stores secret details and memories.
bitknot asks us to find new modes of being through this grid, entrusting one another with the collaborative construction of these knots. This negotiation with an ever-developing hybrid reality is reflected in the album’s production.
Kinsler’s arrangements provide buoyancy and surface tension for Slocum’s meandering introspection, which playfully harmonises against saccharine hooks, walls of noise, and a supercharged car battery’s worth of synths and samples. These sit within Kelley’s most laser-focused drumming to date, forming a sonic chimera that feels both rooted in the early aughts and gesturing toward an unknown chromatic future.
Rhymes written in sidewalk chalk that refuse to be erased by the Anthropocene’s acid rain of destructive relationships. Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man manifests through the spirit of a young woman born in the shadow of the Steel City’s industrial ghosts — a study of the clumsy alchemy of IRL and WWW.
It is within these rhizomatic contradictions that bitknot proliferates.
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