Tavo Carbone

Debut "Horse's Mouth" (2010) at www.tavocarbone.bandcamp.com
"A Brooklyn native, Carbone met his bandmates at Bennington College in Vermont. The members of Horse's Mouth have been playing Carbone's songs together in various forms since 2005. You can hear the chemistry between the musicians almost immediately upon listening- The live performances are impressively faithful to the record without losing any of the feeling of fun and spontaneity" - AmpEater Review
"I saw these guys open for Real Estate in Brooklyn a few years ago, and it's been interesting to see them steadily climb throughout the Northeast. Drummer J.J. Beck's engineering really shines through on this record. You've got to catch them live at some point this fall." - Dipped in Dollars



"I've mentioned before how music that maintains its mystery is often far more effective, and Carbone does exactly that here, giving us lyrics oblique enough to mean a great many things and music that skates through so many moods and meters and feels that it's hard to say just what exactly makes it feel coherent, though certainly something does. Perhaps it's the common sounds of each member's voice (they all sing, excluding Beck, the drummer), or the distinctly personal style each has on his or her instrument. Perhaps it's that all Horse's Mouth songs feel odd in precisely the same way, the product of Carbone's unique and unified vision, impossible to pin down completely but evocative and pleasurably strange, like a fairytale landscape (not one of the neutered ones where everyone is nice and boring, but the Hans Christian Andersen kind, where little girls get their feet cut off with axes)" - Gabriel Birnbaum, AmpEater Review
"Tavo Carbone is an exceptional songwriter, somewhere loosely in the vein of Tom Waits and Frank Zappa and other oddball geniuses. His arrangements are lush and orchestral and sound as if they were filtered through a gramaphone" - Nailgun Media
"Although at the core you can hear normal folk influenced rock songs, there's this bend that the group buts onto the songs that make them wacky at times, delightfully weird and atmospheric, or just plain pretty" - Witchmond Blog
"The type of subtle glockenspiel-laden old-timey pop that simultaneously makes you feel like you are both in the past and the future" - Lawrence.com
"It's sometimes nice to hear whimsy carry the day.just another day in the world of experimental folk music, I guess" - Jim Macnie, The Phoenix