The quintet usually specialize in beard-y reverie, somewhere between Built to Spill’s guitar majesty and Seventies AM folk of America. But the Horses rough things up on Mirage Rock, from the Brown Sugar bounce of Electric Music to the crackling Knock Knock, where Ben Bridwell sings of “a ramshackle crew with something to prove". The album was produced by Glyn Johns, who helmed classics by the Stones and Zeppelin.

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