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    CORY HANSON Pale Horse Rider DRAG CITY

    Jan 14, 2021 4 minutes
    By Peter Watts
    “I’m high on codeine/And digging up shadowsin the backyard/Setting firetotheir graves”

    OVER the course of five albums with LA-based psych five-piece Wand, frontman Cory Hanson has charted a trajectory from the Ty Segallapproved 2014 garage-rock debut, Ganglion Reef, to 2019’s artier and more thoughtful Laughing Matter. The sense of change and development has been palpable, but even so nothing quite prepares you for the sumptuous beauty of Pale Horse Rider, his second solo album.

    Recorded with a three-piece in December 2019 at a home studio in Joshua Tree and then refined and enhanced by Hanson through January and February 2020, it’s an album that offers epic sound on an intimate scale, with country-influenced songs awash with steel guitaroffers the completeness, consistency and confidence that comes from arrival.

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