My name is Marc. I write and record songs in New York City and play them live with a swell gang of musicians. Please visit our new website for more learning.
marc@thecityandhorses.com
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We play for these teams:
White Shoe Records
SVC Records (U.K.)
"I DON'T WANT TO DREAM" VIDEO BY S. LIPUMA
MARC AND CHARLYNE YI PLAY "I MISS IT ALL" AT THE UCB THEATER IN LA!!
CHARLYNE YI SINGS "I MISS IT ALL" ON A RAINY NIGHT
MARC PLAYS "I'LL MARRY YOU" AT THE UCB THEATER!!
"A Thousand Lashes"
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Some nice things some nice people said about The City and Horses:
Time Out New York says, "The singer-songwriter behind the City and Horses refers to himself merely as Marc, hinting at the breezy informality of his indie-pop tunes. Unassuming as it might seem, though, the Brooklyn outfit's debut, I Don't Want to Dream, is both wise and disarmingly wistful."
RCRD LBL says, "We prefer to focus on the literary bent, the folksy thrust, the chamber strains. His sound may be sweet, but it's not precious by a mile."
One-Track-Mind says, "Wherever ["A Thousand Lashes"] may wander, [The City and Horses] makes sure to adorn it with embellishments befitting the brilliance of popsters like Big Star or Edwyn Collins."
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Pop Culture Madness calls The City and Horses a "strummy indie pop dynamo" and that " 'I Miss It All' and 'A Thousand Lashes' are just a small sugary taste of the sweet album, I Don't Want to Dream."
Stereo Killers says "While switching between straight guitar and piano pop, reverb soaked garage rock, slide-guitar and cymbal alt-country, and toe-tapping funk music, I Don't Want to Dream keeps itself relevant and interesting throughout, and demonstrates the fantastic range of TCAH."
Radio Butt says,"This NYC band has only 1,500 listeners according to their last.fm profile. And yet it sounds like it should have at least 100,000! The City and Horses plays cutesy belle-and-sebastian-ish indie pop with a surprisingly soothing effect conveyed by both wide-eyed lyrics and gentle strumming/tinkling/rattling"
The Sky Report says I Don't Want to Dream is full of "erudite pop songcraft that's comfortable without coming off as overbearingly scholarly or too cute to handle, hot potato" and describes the sound as "Pastoral-punk" and "Nerdy-sexy-cool pop music."
Rawk Blog says, "'Little Finland' hits all the right notes: teddy bear lead guitar, wind instruments borrowed from Belle & Sebastian, and wistful lyrics about a girl who's 'not innocent.' 'Oops, I Did It Again' this ain't, but you may find yourself dancing anyway."
Indie Rock Cafe says, The City and Horses is one of the bands to watch in 2009.
Another Form of Relief says "I Don't Want to Dream" is, "one of the most pleasant sounds of the year so far."
EarDrumsMusic says, I Don't Want to Dream is a "wonderful album" that's one of the best of 2009 so far.
Hypeful says that "the opening of 'I Love The Girls' has the kind of innocent and offbeat charm that would fit nicely into a Wes Anderson soundtrack."
Das Klienicum says something in German. Hopefully it's nice.
MP3Hugger.com says I Don't Want to Dream is "a year round pleasure, a gentle stroll that'll bring some order to your chaotic life. Take 'I Love The Girls' for example and realize that life's simple pleasures has a brand new addition."
In Big Takeover 63, Executive Editor Mick Lewis writes, "I Don't Want to Dream [kicks] off in grand style with 'A Thousand Lashes,' a Kafka-esque curlicue on crimes of passion that is whipped with an irrepressible guitar riff, and visis twee indie pop in 'Little Finland,' early dB's power pop on 'Russian Military Badges,' Belle & Sebastian-style self-analysis on the intersection between love and work on 'Your Father's Factory,' and Eastern Bloc emigrants on the clever, charming, and catchy 'I'll Marry You (East Beats West).' This is one City where you needn't dream of perfect idiosyncratic pop; it's yours for the taking. Giddy-up!"
MP3Hugger.com says "'Little Finland' ranges from the subtle to the beguiling" and that The City & Horses are "the missing link between Teenage Fanclub and a whole host of artists from the Sarah label." I could just hug MP3Hugger!
Monkey calls "Little Finland" "a little gem" that "starts as Teenage Fanclub and ends as Belle & Sebastian yet has a homespun charm all of its own."
Cable & Tweed says "Marc Louis is a talented and prolific singer-songwriter with quite a flair for pop and Pro Tools."
The Spoilt Victorian Child says "It's just stunning how somebody this talented hasn't been signed. Criminal. The worlds gone mad I tell ya!" Oh, Simon!
Culture Deluxe says The City & Horses are "a sound somewhere between Mercury Rev and Teenage Fanclub, but perhaps a more obvious reference point would be The Velvet Underground". And then they interviewed me.
SixEyes says "The City & Horses is a catchy, jangly, lo-fi project out of New York from generously talented, and generous, Marc Louis. Listen to the sweet and achy jangle of 'Little Finland' and then get excited when I tell you that the tiny 3 song EP which contains this song is just one of many free downloads written and recorded by Louis over the past ten years."
A penguin roams around Rome listening to "Little Finland". Video made by my friend A Boy with Glasses.
Penguin driving in the city
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