Brown Horse New Single 'Dog Rose' Out Today!

Tuesday, 18th February 2025

'Dog Rose' is the second single from Brown Horse’s new album ‘All The Right Weaknesses’, out April 4th 2025. Building on the stark twang of their debut album, ‘Reservoir’ (9/10 Uncut, ★★★★ The Times, ★★★★ Mojo), the new songs see an energised Brown Horse meld slacker-rock, folk, and alt-country –  equal parts Lucinda Williams, Jason Molina, The Breeders and Silver Jews. With contributions from the band’s multiple songwriters, the record is a patchwork far greater than the sum of its parts. Emma Tovell penned ‘Dog Rose’ and says of the song "I quit my job a few years ago and drove the rusty old band van to Spain. I hadn’t had the opportunity to see different places much so it was a huge deal for me. Some of the lyrics to ‘Dog Rose’ were written in the van on the drive down, at campsites and on roadsides, but I wrote most of them one night in a bar in Granada. It’s a questioning, reminiscing kind of song, but not necessarily in a good way. It feels restless, disquieting. There’s death, sex, the past, desire and disappointment, which together form this desperate sprawl of thoughts and feelings. It’s the only song on ‘All the Right Weaknesses’ that clung on to the wailing lap steel present across our first album. The lap steel has a specific, haunted quality, and in this way, Dog Rose acts as a bit of bridge between the first and second albums. At the time I was listening to a bunch of Purple Mountains, Lucinda Williams, Jason Molina, Big Thief, Cat Power, Wilco and Friends"

Click HERE to pre-order the album and listen to the single.