“On Horsegirl’s 2022 debut, Versions of Modern Performance, three Chicagoan gen Z musicians robed themselves in the noise of gen X indie-rock, their chaotic carapace of distortion and dynamics housing soft-centred pop and bruised melodies. But its fuzzy charms are eclipsed by this quantum leap of a second album, a masterpiece of intention and purposefulness. Produced by Cate Le Bon, Phonetics On an”
“Horsegirl have deftly bridged the wide gulfs between archetypal and ingenious by making music that, while indebted to the sound of decades' past, never feels like pastiche. This isn't the sound of three dabblers with expansive (and expensive) record collections; it's musicians playing the style of music they love with sincerity and intention, dog-eared copies of If You're Feeling Sinister be damne”
“On their Cate Le Bon-produced sophomore record, Phonetics On and On, the quirky Chicago-to-New York trio grow up and grow into their influences.”
“Phonetics finds Horsegirl synthesizing a pretty wide array of influences into lots of quality songs that have their own personality.”
““I’m translating my talk to tones,” Penelope Lowenstein sings on the bright ‘Information Content’. It’s a line that passes by quickly but can be taken as a mission statement for ‘Phonetics On And On’, Horsegirl’s second album. It’s a record built on “ooh”s, “woo hoo”s and, most frequently, “da da da da”s, taking an element of the Chicago trio’s lyricism back to basic building blocks. When Horsegi”
“For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-back sound.”
