Band of Horses usually lie deep in the sweet spot between the dreamy Nineties guitar majesty of Built to Spill and gorgeously harmonized, golden-bearded Seventies folk rock. But this has more going on under the hood than usual, implying the band's upcoming LP will be its most rocking yet. Ben Bridwell sings about "a ramshackle crew with something to prove" over guitars that are more Crazy Horse than America while the drums gallop out of the garage.

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“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”