Band of Horses – review

Academy, Manchester"Listen to the motor getting louder as we go," reads the message on Band of Horses' T-shirts, reflecting the band's upward momentum. After two albums on Sub Pop, their most recent two releases with Columbia – 2010's Grammy-nominated Infinite Arms and now Mirage Rock – have propelled them into the upper reaches of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.On the face of it, their rise could be seen as a triumph of calculation. Band of Horses' elemental music cleverly combin...

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