Whitehorse - Strike Me Down (2021)

Whitehorse pick up moments after the release of Modern Love, the
duo’s blueprint for love in the digital age, with the
announcement of a second new album. Strike Me Down, set for
release in September, showcases Whitehorse’s masterful,
fantastical storytelling and melodic sensibilities, with plenty
of space made for guitar shredding, epic basslines and
spaced-out vocal layering. High-impact production and prismatic
visuals contribute to Strike Me Down’s high-stakes mood.

“Am I Just Gonna Stand Here (While You Take My Girl Away)” spins
and swirls in equal measure, dizzy and giddy in sound while it
weighs its options, or lack thereof. The song arrives with a
kaleidoscopic video filmed in the album art set, another Six
Shooter Art Squad creation directed by Lyle Bell. With the help
of a multi-image prism filter, the video translates album
themes of building and breaking into set-smashing, confetti
bursting abandon.

The new song announces a sharp shift from Modern Love’s hushed,
atmospheric warmth. If Modern Love is about commitment, Strike
Me Down raises the stakes and explores themes of ultimatums and
consequences. This second album was written in the aftershocks
of the vulnerabilities large and small exposed in Modern Love’s
making.

On Strike Me Down, Whitehorse continue to play with fantasies
and realities, theirs and ours.