http://virb.com/bandofhorses Purchase Cease To Begin (Released 10.9.07) at iTunes or Subpop Released in March of 2006, Band of Horses' debut Everything All the Time propelled the band from early shows opening for friends Iron & Wine, to playing on The Late Show with David Letterman by July, and being nominated as one of ten finalists (along with Joanna Newsom, Beirut, Tom Waits, and, the eventual winner, Cat Power) for the Shortlist Music Prize for that same year. The record also received celebratory press in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, Harp, Billboard, Pitchfork, Magnet, NME, Uncut, and a slew of others. For a lot of reasons, Cease to Begin is the perfect title for this new record. Though they worked with producer Phil Ek again, as they did on Everything All the Time, much has changed for Band of Horses between the fairly recent then and now. Band members have come and gone, including Mat Brooke, who left to pursue other interests and his own band. Core members Ben Bridwell, Rob Hampton and Creighton Barrett moved from Seattle to Mt. Pleasant, SC, to be closer to their families. And, close friends and family have come and gone--some far too early. Necessarily shot through with these experiences, the songs on Cease to Begin are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and more straightforward, dealing with the reconciliation of attachment and detachment, the strength that's found through suffering, and the understanding that we are as significant as we are insignificant. It's also a great rock record.]]> Virb 2.0 (@bandofhorses) en http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183266 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:59:37 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183266 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183264 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:55:25 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183264 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183263 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:52:32 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183263 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183261 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:51:33 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183261 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183259 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:47:49 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183259 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183253 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:43:02 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183253 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183248 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:39:15 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183248 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183242 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:35:47 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183242 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183240 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:28:52 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183240 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183239 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:25:40 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/183239 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/46523 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:41:20 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/46523 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/46522 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:39:56 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/46522 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/44362 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:04:42 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/audio/44362 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/photos/1445981 ]]> Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:55:08 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/photos/1445981 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/1062165 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:32:27 -0800 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/1062165 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/1062164 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:32:26 -0800 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/1062164 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/875294 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:23:18 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/875294 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/872454 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:01:17 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/872454 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/870428 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:56:50 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/870428 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/832990 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:48:43 -0700 http://virb.com/bandofhorses/posts/text/832990