Molly Horses Channel Unrest on ‘Clang Clang’
Molly Horses make music that hits like exposed wiring. Their debut EP ‘Clang Clang’ is all jagged edges and nervous tension, a tightly wound burst of post-punk precision that captures the sound of dislocation and persistence.
Recorded at their home studio Train Song in Los Angeles, the six-song collection doesn’t drift through melody. It lunges forward with intent.
Formed in the summer of 2023, the band came together through odd jobs, shared roots in Maine, and years spent ricocheting through other projects. Guitarist and vocalist Harry James delivers lyrics with a kind of controlled panic, never quite yelling, never quite speaking, but always pushing toward rupture. Cormac Shirer Brown’s guitar sounds less like an instrument and more like a cutting tool. Malcolm Watts and Tim Wright lock into grooves that feel punishing but never loose. Every part sounds sharpened and deliberate.
Clang Clang draws its DNA from the raw mechanics of Shellac, the no-frills nerve of Minutemen, and the corrosive detail of Gilla Band. But Molly Horses are not paying tribute. They are documenting their own kind of noise, one born from the grind of surviving in a city that never asked for them. There is no romanticism here, just tension rendered into form.
The EP’s release arrives via LA’s Solid Brass Records, and the band will mark the occasion with a show at Gold Diggers alongside Guck and DJ Allison Wolfe. It’s the right setting for a band that sounds like it was built in the back rooms of the city’s more unforgiving venues.
Clang Clang is out now. It doesn’t wait for you to catch up.
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