“A record that feels like it was captured in one breath — honest, immediate, and alive with human movement.”
Electric Horseman return with their second album Under The Weather, and it feels like a band fully trusting the room they are in. Recorded entirely to tape in just one week, the album carries a rawness that digital production often smooths away. Nothing here feels overly polished. It feels played, not constructed.
The band from Darmstadt build their sound around interaction. Guitars don’t sit still. They overlap, answer each other, and sometimes drift apart. The rhythm section stays central, acting like a spine for everything else to move around. You can hear that most songs began as live takes. That decision shapes the entire album. The opening tracks set the tone quickly. Return feels like a re-entry point, built on steady momentum and reflective energy. There is a sense of coming back to something unfinished. It doesn’t rush. It settles into its space. Night Alliance brings more movement. The guitars feel more layered here, almost conversational. The vocal delivery stays grounded, even when the arrangement opens up. It has that late-night energy where things feel slightly uncertain but still connected. Colliding Moons leans into atmosphere. This is where the band’s psychedelic side shows more clearly. The guitars stretch out a little more, and the song feels wider. It’s less about hooks and more about mood.
Frosted Glass is one of the quieter emotional points. It feels like distance — not dramatic, just subtle separation. The harmonies carry most of the weight here. Then the album shifts into Hideaways, which feels more grounded again. There is a folk-rock warmth in the rhythm and vocal layering. It sounds like a band playing close together in a room. The focus track Phoenix stands at the centre. Built around a repeating guitar figure and steady rhythm, it grows slowly rather than exploding. The story follows a character searching for meaning and slowly drifting off course. The band doesn’t judge that character. They just observe. That choice gives the song depth. Ghosted carries a slightly colder tone. The arrangement feels more spaced out. It reflects absence rather than emotion overload. It is simple, but effective. The final track On Your Isle closes the album with distance and reflection. It does not try to resolve everything. Instead, it leaves the listener in that in-between space the album has been exploring all along. Across all eight tracks, the strength of Under The Weather is its consistency of feeling. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is overly edited. It sounds like people playing together, reacting in real time, and accepting imperfection as part of the record’s identity.That is what makes it work. Not perfection, but presence.
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