Horse Jumper of Love / Flooding
Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., 60622 Chicago Directions
Fri 16.10.2026 22:00
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+ Horse Jumper of Love thrive on patient and uncompromising songs. Thanks to frontman Dimitri Giannopoulos evocative lyrics and arrangements that suddenly turn from delicate to blistering, their music is full of intensity. While the Boston trio, which also includes bassist John Margaris and drummer James Doran, has stretched the fringes of indie, their latest is their most immediate yet. Out August 16 via Run For Cover Records, Disaster Trick tackles self-destructiveness with healing and heart.Where Horse Jumper of Loves last release 2023s Heartbreak Rules excelled with quiet, bare-bones songwriting, Disaster Trick cranks up the volume while keeping the no-frills intimacy of the bands catalog. Recorded at Asheville, North Carolinas Drop of Sun Studios with producer Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo De Souza), the recordings soar with searing guitars and an unshakeable rhythm section. I tried the quiet thing on the last album and I realized theres definitely two parts of me: I like really heavy music, and I like really gentle music, says Giannopoulos. The two albums I listened to the most while we were in the studio were Leonard Cohens Songs From a Room and Hums Downward is Heavenward. This contrast between quiet and loud exists throughout Disaster Trick but its animated by stark emotion and straightforward, timeless songwriting.
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Horse Jumper of Love
2022 saw the release of Horse Jumper of Love’s latest full-length, Natural Part, and now less than a year
later, the band are back with an unexpected new release. Heartbreak Rules is a mini-album of sorts: a
collection of eight completely fresh songs, two reimagined versions of standout tracks from Natural Part,
and a cover of The Smashing Pumpkins classic, “Luna.” But the most striking thing about Heartbreak
Rules is the volume–or more specifically, the lack of it. This is a sparse, intimate version of Horse Jumper
of Love, one that forgoes the waves of fuzz and feedback, and instead highlights the indelible songwriting
at the core of their music.
Heartbreak Rules was written and recorded solely by vocalist/guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos, but it is
undeniably a Horse Jumper of Love release. “When I started writing, I didn’t really know what it would be,”
he explains. “I went into it with no intentions.” Seeking a creative outlet during the pandemic,
Giannopoulos decamped to the Catskills with engineer and longtime band collaborator, Bradford Kreeger,
and the pair spent five days casually recording what would become Heartbreak Rules. “It was really fun,
we were drinking heavily and
