Little Horn began when Atlanta musician Keith Forrester wrote some songs about, as per usual, hard stuff he was going through. Being shy and reclusive about singing, it wasn’t until a group picking session in Alabama where he was asked to sing a folk song that everyone else had forgotten the words to that his friend Daniel Bellury noticed his potential. After that fateful day, Daniel stepped in to encourage and produce the aforementioned songs into recorded existence. The very minimal gothic-folk style album Such Pretty Houses was born and released very quietly on the then infant New York label, Whale Heart Records, which Daniel founded, to put out his and his friend’s recordings.

Since Such Pretty Houses, the sound has evolved and gotten much bigger. With a dark, southeastern, soul-searching lyrical style accompanied by a distinct low end voice, their lack of shame in wailing their instruments, and having been called any number of combinations of indie, folk, gothic, psychedelic, progressive and rock, Little Horn’s approach is fairly simple:  they love what they do, they write what they like, and they hope to be doing it for a long time.

Here is a track from their new album Twelve out on Whale Heart Records on the 26th July. It is a gem.

Download Little Horn – Bridges Break mp3 (from Twelve)