Horsepower! Horsepower! All this Polo on, I got Horsepower! Sorry. That's not what this blog post is about. It's just what I get stuck in my head whenever I see the word "Horsepower." This particular blog post is about Charlotte Weinman, the Brooklyn-based indie rock musician who records under the name Horsepower. She doesn't sound anything like 2 Chainz.
Last year, Weinman released her self-titled debut Horsepower EP. Earlier this year, she followed it with "Force Quit," a single that she co-produced with Model/Actriz’s Ruben Radlauer. Later this fall, she'll release another EP, this one called Happiest Day Of My Life. The lead single is a dreamy, contemplative fuzz-pop number with the rhetorical-question title "Do you think you can live without dying every day?" I love a big crescendo, and this song has a bunch of them. In a press release, Weinman says:
"Do you think you can live without dying every day?" is a song about struggling to decipher my own behavior, feeling so dislocated from my emotions that I can't tell if I'm having any fun or not, and being unable to level a reality of mistreatment with a reality of love. It’s also about perspective and wondering, “who and where is the ‘me’ observing myself, and who and where is the ‘me’ I’m observing?” The truth for me right now is, the very question is a waste of time, and every second contains both vivid association and misty dissociation. Presence is a drain I circle unendingly!
Who can relate? In the song's cool Sannah Kim-directed video, Weinman wanders through a carnival and a demolition derby, staring unnervingly into the middle distance. Check it out below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Seek"
02 "Donner Pass"
03 "Do you think you can live without dying every day?"
04 "Hide"
The Happiest Day Of My Life EP is out 11/20 on Rose Garden. Horsepower plays Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on Jan. 23.
