PULLED APART BY HORSES

Single ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’ out today

Debut album released 21st June

UK tour begins today

‘Surely the greatest live band in Britain.’ The Observer

‘This Leeds four-piece are causing quite a stir with their manic art-punk convulsion, discover why Pulled Apart by Horses are the name on everyone’s lips.’ Rock Sound Magazine

‘Nobody said the revolution would be pretty. Equine-based torture never sounded so sexy.’ NME

‘Brilliantly unpredictable smarty-pants art metal, hoarse hardcore. Beautifully focused racket.’ Kerrang

‘Pulled Apart By Horses’, the debut album from the Yorkshire quartet of the same name, is due for release through Transgressive Records on 21st June 2010.

Led by the single Back to the Fuck Yeah, released on digital download and limited-edition 7” vinyl, available just prior to the album on June 14^th, Pulled Apart By Horses is a blistering document of a band that manages to rock extremely hard yet still remember the importance of vital hooks and incredible songwriting (and having fun).

Produced by James Kenosha, and recorded in Bridlington’s Lodge Studios, ‘Pulled Apart By Horses’ will be available digitally and on CD / Vinyl.

The band’s highly-anticipated debut album will not disappoint those lucky enough to witness their incendiary live shows over the past months. ‘Chaotic’ is a massive understatement for the nuclear-powered PABH live experience, their every show a violent whirlwind of noise and acrobatics – of the body as much as the guitar. In a much kinder sense, the band’s onstage antics echo the medieval execution technique after which they were named. Certainly, the members have the scars to prove it. Guitarist James, who had a tendency to jump on his knees, ended up in hospital on a drip after an infection turned his leg into a gigantic yellow balloon. “The Doctor said if I’d left it a couple more days it would’ve spread to my balls, and once it gets to your balls it spreads everywhere.”

At last year’s Leeds Festival, vocalist and guitarist Tom knocked a chunk out of his shin and ended up with a ‘spurter’. It wasn’t until the end of the show that he even realised his jeans were black with blood. “I thought, I’ve smashed my leg and broken my guitar strap, I may as well crowd-surf. I got back onstage and realised I had a bloody hand print on my shoulder,” he laughs.

Tom’s girlfriend will no longer watch the band live through fear of what might happen, but none of this has made them tone down the intensity. “That’s what it boils down to,” considers James, “because when we play it’s just what happens. It’s not something we plan or think about it just happens because we enjoy it.” And as their reputation grew, they found themselves princes of a new UK underground as support band of choice for aggro-rock’s ivy league, racking up tours with Future Of The Left, Biffy Clyro, Glassjaw and The Bronx.

The album expertly captures the cavalcade of their live shows while expanding the sound into that of a proper gleaming rock record. Capturing this energy was the most crucial thing. Says Tom: “Most of the takes that we kept were from a bit later on when we started to loosen it a bit. If there was any bum notes or fuck ups, if the energy was there then we kept it as it was.”

“We were very aware that when you have a reputation as a live band then your album will be judged against your live shows so we knew we had to do the live show justice. But we’re very happy with it.”

Indeed, from the breakneck shriek of lead single ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’, through the pure-pop-with-teeth of ‘Yeah Buddy’, the screeching hardcore jam ‘The Crapsons’, down to the lurching heavy-metal thud of ‘Den Horn’, this is an album that brilliantly captures the surreal thrill that makes Pulled Apart By Horses what they are.

Pulled Apart By Horses on tour:
JUNE
14 // MANCHESTER // Deaf Institute
15 // LONDON // 100 Club
16 // NOTTINGHAM // Bodega Social Club
17 // GLASGOW // King Tuts
19 // LEEDS // Brudenell Social Club
26 // Glastonbury Festival

JULY
16 // 2000 Trees festival
24 // Off The Cuff festival
25 // Truck festival
30 // Kendal Calling

AUGUST
7 // Hevy festival
20 // Pukkelpop

SEPTEMBER
4 // MANCHESTER // LCCC supporting Muse
12 // End of the Road festival

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