I Break Horses - "Hearts"

In the tradition of other dream pop bands such as Air and School of Seven Bells, there appears I Break Horses. It actually took a little more effort than usual to find out about this Swedish shoegaze band. In reality, it is a duo, Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck. You should check out there website, it gives a sense of the overall personality of the band, in their own words, diminutive transformed into "a shit kicker in high-fidelity."

The song "Hearts" (off of their debut 2011 album Hearts) is a stellar outing into the shoegaze genre. At times it feels like a hybrid between an updated "Girls" by Death in Vegas (famous for being on Lost in Translation, see below) and a sped-up/unporcessed "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis. However, I Break Horses is able to put their own flavor of sound onto the shoegaze genre. From the brilliantly captured video and well designed website, I believe that they will be a good group to follow in the future.