White Horse “Sewn Shut”
White Horse is LA-based artist Ben Chisholm, a producer specifically interested in the power of […]
White Horse is LA-based artist Ben Chisholm, a producer specifically interested in the power of shadowy electronic sounds who also makes music as part of Wild Eyes and as a member of dark-folk songstress Chelsea Wolfe‘s band. Under his solo moniker, Chisholm has spent time crafting a series of EPs called The Revenant Gospels, the third of which he’s just finished. While all of the music is completely original, the ghostly, pitch-shifted voices are samples taken from people who are no longer alive (i.e. Freddie Mercury, Nico, unknown singers from the ’20s, etc.). “Sewn Shut” comes from the most recent installment of those Gospels, and exhibits a particularly light and shimmering side to the White Horse sound. Well, at first anyway. The track’s initial plinking synth tones quickly give way to ominous bass frequencies, howling vocal melodies, and slow-grooving beats that fight to bust through the dense miasma of sound—a far more common soundscape heard in Chisholm’s productions. You can download the rest of the EP for free, here, and check out the two prior Gospelshere.
