SeptemberCaptain Horizon

1 El Nibre EP Released!

Download the free online only ‘El Nibre EP’ from our shop!

The El Nibre EP is a free release of 4 tracks recorded during the Radiostasis sessions. We’re working on an album of new songs, but it felt wrong to abandon these ones. “Turn Away” is a fast paced but sparse rocker that alternates between threadbare verses and mammoth choruses. The title track “El Nibre” is possibly the heaviest and most frantic thing we’ve ever done, telling the story of a mythical monster/force of nature. “Climbing the Waterfall” has been a live favourite over the last year, the end of the song usually finds Whitty at the top of whatever he was able to scale in 4 1/2 minutes.

The final track, Strong Enough, is a song we’ve gone to town on. The original idea came 5 years ago, some songs just take their god damned time. We’ve not played it live much, and it’s a bit different to what we normally do, but put this on headphones late at night and sit back with a beer/ smoke/ herbs/ whisky.

We hope you enjoy this free release, leave your comments below!

El Nibre EP

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Released: 19/09/11
Download the EP for free. (128Kbs)

We’re working on an album of new songs, but it felt wrong to abandon these ones. “Turn Away” is a fast paced but sparse rocker that alternates between threadbare verses and mammoth choruses. The title track “El Nibre” is possibly the heaviest and most frantic thing we’ve ever done, telling the story of a mythical monster/force of nature. “Climbing the Waterfall” has been a live favourite over the last year, the end of the song usually finds Whitty at the top of whatever he was able to scale in 4 1/2 minutes.

The final track, Strong Enough, is a song we’ve gone to town on. The original idea came 5 years ago, some songs just take their god damned time. We’ve not played it live much, and it’s a bit different to what we normally do, but put this on headphones late at night and sit back with a beer/ smoke/ herbs/ whisky.

Reviews

The BCFM Sunday Rockshow – http://sundayrockshow.blogspot.com/2011/09/captain-horizon-el-nibre-ep-self.html

El Nibre is a bit of a rocker that the ducks buttocks tight rhythm section of James “Mez” Merrix and Alex Thomson drives along in fine style, while Climbing The Waterfall is a fine slab of intelligent commercial rock that wouldn’t sound out of place on an album by Young The Giant. However the real gem is the closer Strong Enough a chilled out mini epic that has the ghost of Hawkwind on the intro before floating dreamily away into Porcupine Tree / Darwins Radio territory.

Harry Paterson – http://harrypaterson.co.uk/albums/captain-horizon-el-nibre-e-p/

Strong Enough is a down-tempo ballad that Marbles-era Marillion would have been proud to call their own and if Radiohead found some balls and could drag their gazes from their shoes for long enough to pen something decent, they might sound like this. On a good day. If they worked at it.

0 Free Online EP Announced!

In light of the fact that we’re now working on our debut album, and also that we recorded ten songs when working on our last EP, Radiostasis, we’ve come to a decision. We’re going to put up a special treat for our fans very soon – a free, online-only EP!

This will consist of four songs we recorded during the Radiostasis sessions, three of which fans of Captain Horizon will hopefully be very familiar with, and one only die-hards and the psychotically devoted will really know, since we’ve hardly ever played it live – in fact we have never played it live in its current form.

As we whispered lovingly into your ears during the course of our last update, we want our first album to hang together as an album rather than just be a sort of browny-greyish song-porridge of stuff that happened to land on a disc. But we thought these four songs, which basically share no theme apart from being played by the same hands, feet and vocal cords, were pretty bloody good. What in hell’s name will we do with them, we thought. We want people to hear them, we thought.

Onto the website with them, we thought.

Track listing:

Climbing The Waterfall
El Nibre
Turn Away
Strong Enough

These will all be available as a free download as of Monday the 19th September!