The Horn The Hunt – Paris by charmfactory 
The Horn The Hunt announce the release of their second album, Depressur Jolie, through White Label Music on 23 May 2011.
Check out the free download of their track ‘Paris’ below!
Depressur Jolie is the first pre-conceived album we’ve written together. After releasing our debut album (in 2009) and establishing ourselves as a band, we knew exactly what we wanted our next album to be about. It would be colourful and bouncy with lots of different forms and textures, but have this dark underbelly throughout. We wanted to make a big pop album – our ideal pop album – full of bold, aggressive songs that have no loyalty to any particular sound or style.. explains Clare Carter, a visual artist and who, along with Joseph Osborne, makes up the Leeds-based pop duo.
To us the album is like a colonial voyage, all steeped in British ambition and guilt. It starts with this ship sailing out over huge waves in the opening track, then land is sighted, we go ashore on this tropical volcanic island and bump into predators and carnivorous plants – the usual adventure story. There are a few battles, lava’s flowing into the sea, coconuts are running out, you start to question why you left your home, homesickness descends.
The Horn The Hunt first began writing and recording songs in a flat in Sandnes, Norway in early 2008. Their music has taken them on a journey – literally. During their travels the duo have been inspired by and written songs in places ranging from the frozen tundra of Greenland to a room carved into the side of a canyon in the middle of Spain, before finally settling into the bedroom studio in Leeds, where they are now based.
“When we returned to England after traveling for 3 years it felt like a huge adjustment going back to a regular job and domestic life. Like being sat in a cage made of pound coins, with loads of TVs and newspapers surrounding it. You can watch everything going on and educate yourself about things but you can’t move from your designated place, says Clare. I made the decision to take singing and songwriting seriously, and to start performing. It was a big scary deal to me, like a coming-out process of being exposed, thrown into the deep end.”
The Horn The Hunts influences run the gamut, from the shadowy drama of Kate Bush and David Lynch, to the jagged snarl of Rammstein, The Fall, and Babes in Toyland and the pastoral elegance of The Knife and 19th-century Russian landscape painters Melanie and Goya. The Horn The Hunts songs are equally magical and accessible, reminiscent of long forgotten folk stories, embellished with futuristic sounds and contemporary beats. They are continuing in a long tradition of analogue synth mastery their record label, White Label Music is co-headed by Ann Shenton, of Mute Records electronic pioneers, Add N to (X).
THE HORN THE HUNT GIGS
May 03 The Harley, Sheffield (Supporting Damo Suzuki)
May 05 THE BULL & GATE, London
May 06 Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor
May 18 Gwdihw, Cardiff
May 28 ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY @ Milo, Leeds
Jun 10 Rough Beats Festival, North Yorkshire
Aug 14 Beacons Festival, Skipton
Sep 17 Alchemy Festival, Lincolnshire
