Smith, Patti: Horses (Vinyl LP)

Smith, Patti: Horses (Vinyl LP)

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It isn’t hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye’s rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith’s vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics — all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic.
Smith is a rock critic’s dream, a poet as steeped in ’60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; 'Land' carries on from the Doors’ 'The End', marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, while the borrowed choruses of 'Gloria' and 'Land of a Thousand Dances' are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the ’70s. Producer John Cale respected Smith’s primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new spoken word/musical art form.
Horses was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, “dancing around to the simple rock & roll song".
2015 reissue on 180 gram vinyl.
  1. Gloria
  2. Redondo Beach  
  3. Birdland
  4. Free Money
  5. Kimberly 
  6. Break It Up
  7. Land
  8. Elegie



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