Pale Horse And Rider - Moody Pike

‘Moody Pike’ is Pale Horse and Rider’s second full length release following 2003's ‘These Are The Good Times’.
Featuring a host of collaborators including Marc Gartman (Low, Rivulets), Gerald Menke (ex-Mercury Rev), Mike Pride (Anthony Braxton, Dynamite Club), and was engineered / recorded with Paul Oldham (Palace, Bonnie Prince Billy, Anomoanon)


Brooklyn’s favourite country boys Pale Horse and Rider return with a stunner of a second album. On ‘Moody Pike’, PHR architect Jon DeRosa invites long time collaborator Marc Gartman (Low, Rivulets) in as a partner. Add to the equation Ohio's own Gerald Menke (ex-Mercury Rev) on pedal steel guitar, free-jazz wunderkind Mike Pride (Anthony Braxton, Dynamite Club) on drums, and Paul Oldham (Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy/Anomoanon) behind the mixing board. The result is a masterful country sound with the insightfulness of folk and the drive of bar room rock n’ roll.
PHR’s ragtag looks, lack of uniforms, and weathered faces give no indication of their uncanny ability to pierce the heart, with beautifully turned phrases and lilting melodies. DeRosa and Gartman share both the microphone and the lyric book, & their lyrical territory is vast, as both songwriters have different styles and strengths. DeRosa is clearly more urban, focusing on the recklessness of youth in Brooklyn, self-destruction and the casual use of drugs, in a voice that neither glorifies nor pities. Marc’s songs tend to be more pastoral, introspective, and masterfully detailed, relating stories so vividly that each song reads like a bedtime story.

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