Music:
Member Since: 8/3/2006
Band Members: Julian Bozeman, Patrick Bozeman, Mercer West, Andy Pruett, David Specht, Javier Morales, Cameron Dye, Aaron Gentry, Christian Seklecki, Taylor Lee
Influences:
Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Robert Wyatt, Kate Bush, Brian Wilson, Lindsday Buckingham, Basia, Donald Fagen, the Moffatts, Faust
Sounds Like: QUIET HOOVES – No Mare O’Mine (self-released) – I met Quiet Hooves at Good Records when Dark Meat Vomit Laser Galaxy Family Band performed a festive in-store on Saturday afternoon, May 18th. Quiet Hooves was the opening act the night prior at Lola’s in Fort Worth. What drew me to their album was the fully silkscreened/letter-press gatefold sleeve, the image of a skateboarding horse sporting bling and the hokey title “No Mare O’Mineâ€. Out of Athens, GA and led by brothers, Julian and Patrick Bozeman, Quiet Hooves also features five other musicians on their new album. Jazzy horns, vintage synths, a few toys as instruments and conversational lyrics that charmingly teeter between band members; Quiet Hooves are an eclectic and experimental ensemble that’s almost a low-fi Man-Man. For the lazy: a completely stripped down and calm version of Dark Meat or a less dramatic version of Polyphonic Spree. Listen to their trilogy of songs “your bodyâ€, “your troubles†and “your mother†to get a complete feel of this witty album.
- From Parade of Flesh
Quiet Hooves play pop songs of a sort but make use of impressively thick textural spaces, of arrangements that refuse the basic geometries of the radio-friendly and bored.There is a keen attention to sonic balance, to timbral weight and aural event, at the heart of the group’s eccentric bricolage-pop; the limber lineaments of Julian Bozeman’s songs slide through and butt up against an omnipresent and shimmering drone of horns, violin, electronics, and toy piano; and Mercer West’s agile and angular drumming serves as a medium through which the two sound-worlds -- organized in Stravinskian blocks or spatial compartments that would make Pierre Boulez smile (if indeed he ever smiles) -- can interact.
- From The Kansas City Star
Record Label: Party Party Partners
Type of Label: Major