Patti Smith – Horses LP Vinyl Record

Patti Smith – Horses LP Vinyl Record

Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith. It was released on November 10, 1975 by Arista Records. A fixture of the mid-1970s underground rock music scene in New York City, Smith signed to Arista in 1975 and recorded Horses with her band at Electric Lady Studios in August and September of that year. She enlisted former Velvet Underground member John Cale to produce the album.

Smith characterised Horses as “three-chord rock merged with the power of the word”.Describing the music on the album, Consequence of Sound’s Lior Phillips noted a minimalist quality that “matched the tone of” the nascent punk rock genre.Author Joe Tarr identified a punk sensibility in the music’s reliance on simple chord progressions,while William Ruhlmann of AllMusic cited Lenny Kaye’s rudimentary guitar playing, the “anarchic spirit” of Smith’s vocals, and the emotionally charged nature of Smith’s lyrics as being representative of punk.Tarr wrote that the band “proudly flaunted a garage rock aesthetic”, and that Smith “sang with the delirious release of an inspired amateur”, emphasising “honest passion” over technical proficiency.Smith’s vocals on the album alternate between being sung and spoken, an approach that, according to Peter Murphy of Hot Press, “challenged the very notion of a demarcation” between the two forms.

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