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BROWN HORSE

Reservoir LOOSE

9/10

THIS quite stunning debut album by Norwich-based Brown Horse opens with a track called “Stealin’ Horses”, not entirely a song about equine larceny. It’s in fact a song about a song heard on late-night radio that the song we’re listening to now becomes, “Stealin’ Horses” morphing into a version of Jimmie Rodgers’ 1930 country touchstone “Muleskinner Blues” that turns it into a lament for the lost love who’s singing the song on the radio. Rodgers would likely be baffled by

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