Homeshake – Horsie (Vinyl)

Homeshakepresents his second album of 2024, Horsie. Written and recorded at his home studio in Toronto, it explores Sagars complicated feelings about returning to live performance. Deepening his relationship to loneliness and anxiety, the record examines those themes in the context of touring.

Horsie employs various textures influenced by artists like Four Tet and My Bloody Valentine, the rhythmic forms of DAngelo and Sade, and moments of ambient Americana found in the works of Ry Cooder. The cornerstone pieces of gear used were an Ensoniq EPS and Roland Juno 60, though the album also employs a great deal of electric guitar, along with his beloved SP-404. He maintains a philosophy of less is more, finding the simplest route from one point to another.

Homeshake, the musical project of Peter Sagar, is an expression of adjustment and contortion within the world as he experiences it and the sounds he wants to hear in it. Hallucinatory and heartbreaking in its cries for connection, Sagars sound is often imitated but has proven to be entirely his own; textural and profound, uniquely honouring his diverse influences but adrift within its own transportive imagination.

Tracklist:
A1. Ravioli
A2. Horsie
A3. Dinner Plate
A4. Blunt Talk
A5. On A Roll
A6. Smiling
B1. Nothing 2 See
B2. Simple
B3. Easier Now
B4. Believe
B5. Empty Lot
B6. Ice Tea