HORSEBATH announces European tour dates with "Another Farewell"

HORSEBATH are a band open to serendipity, always searching for that spark of creation that allows them to express something they couldn’t otherwise put into words.

That’s exactly what happened one morning when they started jamming together during sessions for their debut album. After a few moments of aimless playing, they stumbled onto an idea, which they allowed to grow into a song none of them could have written by themselves. “It started out as this Tex-Mex-style tune and evolved from there, but it always had a cool energy,” says Keast Mutter, one of the band’s three lead singers and four multi-instrumentalists.

HORSEBATH has been rambling around Canada for a few years now, putting thousands of miles on the odometer as they’ve defined a distinctive balance of rambunctious barroom energy and rootsy, open-plains melodicism. "Another Farewell" is an album whose outsize musical palette—weird cowboy songs, streamlined saloon rockers, big-hearted folk tracks, pastoral psychedelia—is rooted in their wanderlust.

Playing songs about roaming, HORSEBATH make no bones about gesturing toward other artists who’ve played songs about roaming. They venerate The Band, of course, but also Neil Young, The Buckaroos, Hank Williams, and The International Submarine Band, and they ignore the skeleton frames of burned-out bands who’ve driven these same highways. “In the Shade” has more than a bit of Gram Parsons’ cosmic country sound, but Horsebath find unexpected ways to convey spaciness, primarily by filling every empty space with swirls of ominous organ chords. It all makes the chorus—“I run from the sun and I hide in the shade”—sound that much more haunted, like Mutter is crawling out of a dark hole.

With "Another Farewell" under their belt the HORSEBATH announces European tour dates:

15/10: Nottingham, UK - The Chapel at The Angel Microbrewery
16/10: Glasgow, UK - Hug & Pint
17/10: High Peak, UK - The Strines Nightingale
22/10: Valencia, ESP - Loco CLub
23/10: Madrid, ESP - Clamores
24/10: Zaragoza, ESP - Rock And Blues
26/10: Santander, ESP - Little Bobby
28/10: Hoogezand, NL - Theater 't Kielzog
29/10: Utrecht, NL - TivoliVredenburg 
30/10: Leiden, NL - Q-Bus
01/11: Groningen, NL - Take Root