Girl with Fish – feeble little horse ★★★½

Year	Album	Artist	Stars	Score	Genre
2023	Girl With Fish	feeble little horse	★★★½	78	Rock	Indie Rock	Shoegaze

feeble little horse’s Girl with Fish is a quick, delightful indie rock record that, when necessary, utilizes a perfect amount of reverb, distortion, bendy dissonance and electronic sound effects to bring its seemingly intimate presentation to the next level. 

The band has the appeal of a DIY acoustic indie act, with soft vocals and an unrefined sound, but knows when to dive into their shoegaze and grunge toolkits to bring the extra noise. 

“Tim Man” and “Slide” do it best, with acoustic guitar melodies transitioning to roaring choruses. But good moments are found throughout the record, which is surprisingly balanced with sweet and aggressive moments, and tender and raunchy lyrics. 

The best thing about the record though is that it feels like feeble little horse is having fun and trying shit out sometimes just to see if it’ll stick (and most of the time, it does).  

“Pocket” might represent this feeling best. Fun drums lead into an intoxicatingly catchy and cute sounding “do you want to be in my pocket” refrain that you can’t help but sing along to, until you get to the “dead man’s fucking me every day” bit. And then there’s an abrupt cut right before the refrain is about to return, and the song explodes, with layers of guitar and screaming vocals. It’s choppy and a little scattered, but it works, and the left turns they take never jeopardize the song’s integrity.

Other highlights include the fun guitar riff and fuzzy synths in “Paces,” the awkwardly long pauses before the in-your-face choruses on “Sweet,” and the uncomfortable retelling of having your virginity taken in front of a plastic Jesus statue by a dude who fucks like he’s eating taking and has a face like concrete. It’s that kind of album.