LOWRIDER: New Single “And The Horse You Rode In On” Out Now!

Stoner rock giants LOWRIDER share new track off upcoming split album with Elephant Tree, out October 25th on Blues Funeral Recordings.

Swedish stoner rock heroes LOWRIDER share their new single “And The Horse You Rode In On” on all streaming services today! The song is taken from “The Long Forever”, their eagerly anticipated split album with London psych-doom royalty ELEPHANT TREE, to be issued on October 25th through Blues Funeral Recordings. 

“We just wanted to do something different,” says LOWRIDER frontman Peder Bergstrand. “How do you follow up the 11 minute closing track everyone loved on our last album? I have no idea, but a two-and-a-half minute punk banger on the current state of the world seemed like the only way” he chuckles. “Weirdly enough it’s also our first music video ever. I’ve done more music videos for others than I can remember(for Greenleaf & Dozer among others) but somehow this is our first. Feels nice to have ripped that bandaid, 25 years into the career haha!”

“We just wanted people to see the raw energy of the band. And Niclas’ tshirt is a slight nod to current events and kind reminder to take care of your pets and not eat them… and also to not believe everything you see on TV” he adds with a smirk.

Watch Lowrider’s new video “And The Horse You Rode In On“
+ listen to the single on all streaming services

Elephant Tree and Lowrider have come together to present the collaborative album “The Long Forever”, easily one of the most eagerly awaited split releases in heavy rock history. Arriving in the wake of their landmark 2020 releases, “The Long Forever” finds both bands at critical junctures: each has a broad and expanding influence, each is revered onstage and off, and each is about to deliver its first proper new music in four years to tremendous anticipation. 

“The Long Forever” takes its title from the nickname Elephant Tree singer and guitarist Jack Townley gave to the multi-week coma he was kept in for medical reasons following a near-fatal biking accident in early 2023. Dreaming without waking and losing all sense of time as his mind attempted to process and cope with the ordeal, that lyrical description can only hint at the enormity of Jack’s experience. And yet, the year or so that followed manifested a musical freedom in the bands’ respective approaches. Lowrider has grown more complex and expressive, while Elephant Tree has chosen a rawer, set-up-the-mics-and-go approach. “The Long Forever” is the vehicle through which the bands meet, subverting and superseding the expectations on them, with a traumatic nexus as the gravitational singularity around which the entire LP orbits, bending and shaping every note that escapes forth.

Stress, trauma, time, gravity, sound, joy, catharsis and texture all find a place across the record’s 43 minutes, but what resonates is the stridence with which Elephant Tree and Lowrider meet at the convergence of timelines and complement each other in evolving listeners’ ideas of who they are. In the end, perseverance, healing and stubbornness of passion are what made “The Long Forever” a reality. We invite fans to listen with open minds and love in their hearts. Check out the album’s debut single with ELEPHANT TREE and LOWRIDER’s collaborative track “Long Forever“!

ELEPHANT TREE & LOWRIDER “The Long Forever”
Out October 25th on Blues Funeral Recordings (LP/CD/digital)
Preorder on Bandcamp, Bluesfuneral.com and SPKR shop

About ELEPHANT TREE

Formed in London in 2023, Elephant Tree has spent the past decade delivering their heavy, melodic sound to audiences across the international scene with their 2016 self-titled album winning praise from critics and fans alike. Early 2019 saw the band enter The Church Studios to deliver their third album ‘Habits’ (2020) with engineer and producer Riley MacIntyre (The Horrors, Thurston Moore, Adele) at the helm — an ambitious, emotion-driven journey made of spacious yet heavy-as-ever soundscapes, a scintillating blur of prog, psych, and melodic heavy rock. 2020 was, as foreseen by the clear-sighted, the year they bloomed out of best kept underground secret into a household name, making it to the top of year-end lists and making an appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show as well as reaching number 14 on the Official Charts Rock & Metal and number 25 on the Official Charts Indie lists. After a series of acclaimed festival performances across the UK and Europe, all band activities were unexpectedly put to a halt in the winter of 2022 after frontman and guitarist Jack Townley was severely injured in a bike accident. Elephant Tree is now set to release their anticipated split record with Lowrider on October 25th via Blues Funeral Recordings. 

About LOWRIDER

As the preeminent band out of the gate in the late 90s post-Kyuss wake, Lowrider‘s debut EP and seminal album ‘Ode to Io’ were foundational slabs at the dawn of stoner rock. The swinging metal offshoot grew quickly into a worldwide phenomenon, with Lowrider established as one of its undeniable trailblazers. Following those early releases with a handful of compilation and soundtrack appearances and a period of relative inactivity, the band re-emerged at DesertFest Berlin in 2013. They’ve since blown minds at Hellfest, Keep it Low, DesertFest London and Belgium, Stoned from the Underground and Up in Smoke, and issued expanded remastered versions of their original records. All that was left was to give the world something new. Released in early 2020 through Blues Funeral Recordings, their long-awaited sophomore album ‘Refractions’ explodes with all the churning fuzz and expansive riff-heaviness for which the band are beloved, shot through with re-energized purpose and maturity. All throughout the year, “Refractions” has garnered high praise from international press, being awarded”Best Album of 2020″ on Magnet Magazine, Metal Hammer’s staff lists, The Obelisk, Doom Charts, as well as being featured on top of numerous end-of-year lists such as on Metal Injection, Rock & Folk Magazine, New Noise, Invisible Oranges or Guitar Part Magazine

ELEPHANT TREE links
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LOWRIDER links
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BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS links
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