Band of Horses

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Band of Horses
Band of Horses live at South by Southwest (2006)
Band of Horses live at South by Southwest (2006)
General information
origin Seattle , United States
Genre (s) Indie rock
founding 2004
Website www.bandofhorses.com
Current occupation
Ben Bridwell
Creighton Barrett
Rob Hampton
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Cease to Begin
  US 35 10/27/2007 (4 weeks)
Infinite Arms
  DE 88 05/28/2010 (1 week)
  CH 29 05/30/2010 (1 week)
  UK 21st 05/29/2010 (3 weeks)
  US 7th 06/05/2010 (13 weeks)
Mirage Rock
  DE 72 09/28/2012 (1 week)
  AT 61 09/28/2012 (1 week)
  CH 35 09/30/2012 (1 week)
  UK 20th 09/29/2012 (2 weeks)
  US 13 06.10.2012 (4 weeks)
Acoustic at the Ryman
  UK 84 03/08/2014 (1 week)
  US 37 03/01/2014 (2 weeks)
Why Are You OK
  DE 72 06/17/2016 (1 week)
  CH 40 06/19/2016 (3 weeks)
  UK 37 06/23/2016 (1 week)
  US 19th 07/02/2016 (2 weeks)

Band of Horses (previously only Horses ) is an American indie rock - and Dream-Pop - band . It was founded in Seattle in 2004 by Ben Bridwell, Mat Brooke, Creighton Barrett and Rob Hampton, and fifth band member Joe Arnone joined the group in 2006. You are under contract with the record label Sub Pop .

history

Their first album Everything All the Time recorded the band in the course of 2005 and released it on July 25, 2006. On July 13, 2006, the band announced that Brooke had left the group to pursue other music projects - especially his second Band Grand Archives , which also signed a contract with Sub Pop .

On October 9, 2007, the band released their second album, Cease to Begin , with which they pushed into the US album charts . Three years later they achieved their international breakthrough with the album Infinite Arms . On September 18, 2012, their album Mirage Rock was released.

Discography

Albums

  • Everything All the Time (2006, US:goldgold)
  • Cease to Begin (2007, UK:silversilver)
  • Infinite Arms (2010)
  • Mirage Rock (2012)
  • Acoustic at the Ryman (2014)
  • Why Are You OK (2016)

EPs

Singles

  • The Funeral (2006, UK:silversilver)
  • The Great Salt Lake (2006)
  • Is There a Ghost (2007)
  • No One's Gonna Love You (2008)
  • Compliments (2010)

Others

  • The beginning of the track Is There a Ghost from the second album Cease to Begin can be heard in the series Fringe - Grenzfalls des FBI , episode 2x21 Noyo County . The title can also be heard in the film Stichtag .
  • The covered track The End's Not Near, It's Here (originally by The New Year ) can be heard in OC, California at the end of the second episode of the fourth season. In addition, the very last episode of this series bears the title of the song.
  • The title Cigarettes, Wedding Bands from the second album Cease to Begin can be played in the Guitar Hero 5 computer game .
  • The title The Funeral from the first album Everything All the Time appears in the Criminal Minds episode God Judgment , in the FlashForward episode Future Shock , in the first episode of the eighth season of How I Met Your Mother , at the end of the seventh episode of the fourth Season of One Tree Hill , played in the final episode of the first season 90210 and at the end of the film Let's be Cops . Furthermore, the leading actress of the American series My life as Liz sings the song in the fourth episode of the first season in a talent competition. He is also the soundtrack of the YouTube video Inspired Bicycles , with which Danny MacAskill became famous, in the game Skate , in the trailer of the movie 127 Hours , at the end of the episode "Ghost in the Machine" in the second season of the series "Kyle XY " to listen. Also in the film Boot Camp , in Minds Wide Open by Andre Paskowski, in the remake of the horror classic Stepfather and in the credits of the film Battleship . The song was also sampled by the American rapper Kid Cudi .
  • Two tracks from the second album Cease to Begin can be heard in the first season of Chuck : The General Specific in the episode Chuck versus Tango and No One's Gonna Love You in the episode Chuck versus Black Friday .
  • The title I Go to the Barn Because I Like the is played at the end of the last episode of the fourth season of the Psych series.

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US UK
  3. ↑ Inspired Bicycles on YouTube

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