We like the idea of art as a tool for changing your perspective, being able to rotate ideas and see/hear/feel them from a different vantage point. Horse Lords' artistic philosophy centers on using their music to shift listener perspectives and explore ideas from multiple angles, reflecting their experimental approach to composition and performance.
Recorded between Berlin and Baltimore, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is the experimental rockers' first album to feature vocals, and follows 2022's Comradely Objects. It builds out Horse Lords' core lineup of Owen Gardner, Max Eilbacher, Sam Haberman, and Andrew Bernstein with bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and vocalists Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor.