The quintet usually specialize in beard-y reverie, somewhere between Built to Spills guitar majesty and Seventies AM folk of America. But the Horses rough things up on Mirage Rock, from the Brown Sugar bounce of Electric Music to the crackling Knock Knock, where Ben Bridwell sings of a ramshackle crew with something to prove”. The album was produced by Glyn Johns, who helmed classics by the Stones and Zeppelin.

Tracklist

A1. Knock Knock A2. How To Live A3. Slow Cruel Hands Of Time A4. A Little Biblical A5. Shut-in Tourist A6. Dumpster World B1. Electric Music B2. Everything’s Gonna Be Undone B3. Feud / B4. Long Vows B5. Heartbreak On The 101