quiet hooves

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’Mine”. 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 body”, “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