432 presents…

Brown Horse return with their third album Total Dive. Their strongest and 

most grounded work to date, it showcases a new level of skill and assurance 

in the Norwich, UK band’s thoughtful lyricism and musicality. Leaning away 

from the playfulness and eclecticism of their previous works, Total Dive 

sees Brown Horse step forward into the darkness with a cautious optimism. 

With songs from each of the four members (Patrick Turner, Nyle Holihan, 

Emma Tovell and Rowan Braham) the writing charts a world of small 

revelations and painful changes. As they move confidently between searing 

noise and delicate reflection, they take time to note the beauty and agony 

of the mundane; the death rattle of a vending machine, headlights flashing 

in the eyes of a road-killed fox, the heather-pink of a winter sky. The new 

album is the clearest expression yet of Brown Horse’s unique sound - 

somewhere between the stark country rock of Uncle Tupelo, the raw intimacy 

of early Cat Power, and the haunted landscapes of Magnolia Electric Co., 

while embracing the self-possessed noisiness of alt rock trailblazers like 

Built to Spill and The Breeders. Bolstered by the playing of Norwich 

drummer, Ben Rodwell, and the vocal harmonies of Leeds-based musician, Neve 

Cariad, Total Dive is the sound of a band coming fully into their own. 

These are songs inhabited by wide Norfolk skies, thousands of shared miles 

on the road, the noise of heartbreak and humour, and the echoing silence of 

long hours spent in strange in-between places.

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