Horse Lords Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! With New Album

Horse Lords have a new album on the way. Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! lands on RVNG Intl. on June 12, and two new singles from the record, “Eureka 378-B” and “Brain of the Firm,” are out today. They both arrive alongside videos directed by artist Scott Kiernan. Check them out below.

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.

In support of the record, Horse Lords have also confirmed a summer North American tour, which will bring them to Minneapolis, Madison, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and more. They also have two sets of European dates on the docket: a brief run across Belgium and Italy in May, and a larger tour in November. Browse a full itinerary below.

Read about Horse Lords’ “May Brigade” at No. 95 in The 100 Best Songs of 2022.

Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
01 Eureka 378-B
02 Brain of the Firm
03 Rotation I
04 Playing and Reality
05 Rotation II
06 First Galactic Utopia
07 Rotation III
08 Before the Law
09 After the Last Sky
10 A City Yet to Come
11 Second Galactic Utopia
12 Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

Horse Lords:

05-22 Gent, Belgium – Viernulvier
05-23 Brussels, Belgium – Nuits Botaniques
05-30 Bologna, Italy – Angelica Festival
05-31 Turin, Italy – Jazz Is Dead
06-19/20 Kongsberg, Norway – Motvind Festival
07-09/10 Winnipeg, CA – Winnipeg Folk Festival
07-11 Minneapolis, MN – The Cedar
07-12 Madison, WI – Art Lit Lab
07-13 Rock Island, IL – Rozz Tox
07-14 Yellow Springs, OH – Foundry Theatre
07-15 State College, PA – Manny’s
07-16 Buffalo, NY – Torn Space Theatre
07-17/18 Guelph, ON – Hillside Festival
07-19 Chatham, NY – PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance
07-25 Los Angeles, CA – The Getty Center
08-01 Tasov, Czech Republic – Beseda Festival
08-06/08 Haldern, Germany – Haldern Pop Festival
11-03 Aarhus, Denmark – VoxHall
11-04 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
11-05 Stockholm, Sweden – Hus 7
11-07 Hamburg, Germany – MS Stubnitz
11-09 Paris, France – Instants Chavirés
11-11 London, United Kingdom – ICA
11-15 Lille, France – L’Aéronef
11-18 Berlin, Germany – Silent Green
11-19 Warsaw, Poland – Pardon To Tu