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Rock plaza central are we not horses rar5/28/2023 ![]() The best songs - disc-opener 'I Am an Excellent Steel Horse' and album high point 'My Children, Be Joyful' - build slowly from subdued, single-instrument accompaniment for Eaton (usually fiddle, banjo or acoustic guitar) into frantic, strings- and horns-driven hoe-downs with full-throated singalong choruses. Singer Chris Eaton's strained warble - part and part early - stands like a sentinel at the front gate to these ramshackle compositions if 's 'all my favorite singers couldn't sing' adage resonates with you, then the rest of should reveal its many charms. 's music falls somewhere between country-rock and indie rock, with bits of, and surfacing as touchstones from time to time. Unfortunately for the concept, that's especially true if you take each song on its own merit and forget what one bandmember called the 'cubist rock opera' behind them. So much more to their credit then that Toronto's manage to pull it off on their Yep Roc debut and second record. ![]() If wariness is your initial reaction to a concept record about six-legged robot horses battling with the forces of good and evil, it probably should be. I Am an Excellent Steel Horse Lyrics: 10. When We Go, How We Go (Part I) Lyrics: 9. Are we not horses? Fifteen hands Lyrics: 7. How Shall I To Heaven Aspire? When we go, how we go (part II) Lyrics: 3. Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses Album Lyrics 1. Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses Rar 8,2/10 2396reviews
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