{"id":31096,"date":"2025-02-03T07:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=31096"},"modified":"2025-02-03T07:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:50:52","slug":"new-album-gus-englehorn-the-hornbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/new-album-gus-englehorn-the-hornbook\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: Gus Englehorn || The Hornbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a distance, the nine stories from The Hornbook<\/em><\/a> sound like a pleasant get-together in the here and now, but when we zoom in on the cover art and lyrics it turns out to be a dark and absorbing fantasies transcending time. So yeah, Gus Englehorn\u2014the professional snowboarder from Alaska who became an indie-rock singer-songwriter in Hawaii\u2014is doing what he does best on his new album (we were fans of his 2022 Dungeon Master<\/em><\/a> LP, even more so when we saw him and his wife Est\u00e9e Preda perform it live). As he says: “When I was writing these songs, it felt like I was making a children’s book, but it also felt like a cipher for our whole world.” And so we travel here through a tangle of surreal images and a patchwork of musical styles, colorful and exciting. This is not easy fare, more of a musical cipher for the curious and the fearless\u2014grown-ups only\u2014who are open to sonic adventures beyond period.<\/p>\n