Jordaan Mason

semi-illiterate songs about sickness & sex. the horse museum for the last few years has been a large group of players and singers (that seemed to constantly be growing), but as these things happen, people have gone on to do separate things. a two-piece version of the band remains, and is currently working on a follow-up record entitled the decline of stupid fucking western civilization.



our first record, divorce lawyers i shaved my head, is still available! three years in the making (writing & singing & stomping & pressing record over & over), the album features a large version of the horse museum powering through fourteen songs that tell the story of a failed marriage between two people of confused identities and genders, complete with equine weddings, carnival horns, a henry-darger inspired glandolinian war, unexpected male birth, haircuts, semen, and the eventual destruction of the world in 1990.
here's what people have been saying:
"probably the most authentic music i've heard in ages, nasal jeff magnum-esk howlings, dizzying lyrics, the horns of jericho, a wonderful album.my ears have been pollinated this summer."
- nocturnal weeks
"the fevered energy of the iconoclastic horse museum made me feel like i was at a group séance for the dead."
- eye weekly
"cross pollinates non sequitor and synecdoche to give birth to a stunningly sensual album. horns groan and whine, accordions wheeze and singing saws tremble along as mason‘s droning corporeal narratives of confusion and exploration leave the listener hungry and groping for more."
-melophobe
"a perfect, if frightening, mess . musically, the easy touchstones here are neutral milk hotel, okkervil river and, say, animal collective's early acoustic weirding. but, truthfully, to make such easy comparisons is to cut this album short. it's a journey and needs to be treated as such. in fact, it requires it."
- aquarium drunkard
"in my philistine knowledge of music, i would say that the band sounded like a cross between the epic melting pot of the arcade fire, mixed with the ambitious conceptualness of the who’s tommy, and the personal exorcism and sexual obsession of nan goldin’s photography."
- steven goetz, photographer
"that album is mind-blowing, it's absolutely brilliant. for me that is a perfect example of the sort of music i love . one of the top albums of 2009."
- drunk country, the waiting room
"while [the horse museum] isn’t the most accessible band in toronto, it is attempting something weighty and substantial and is well worth giving a chance."
- now magazine
"this band has written one of the most fascinating albums of 2009."
- their bated breath
"great albums always create their own unique, cohesive atmosphere and divorce lawyers. instantly transports you to another world; an eerie, foggy, desolate place."
- polaroids of androids
"the more i've listened, the more i've been able to appreciate mason in all his yowling, sex-and-sickness-obsessed glory."
- i (heart) music



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