Horse Latitudes by Jeffrey Foucault

The Horse Latitudes are the equatorial reaches where only ocean, sky, and desert obtain; where legend says becalmed Spanish sailors put their horses overboard as the cisterns ran dry. Places of element, and reckoning.

Cinematic in scope and movement, HORSE LATITUDES, the startling new album from Jeffrey Foucault, begins the place of reckoning, confronting the end of nature and the end of youth in a series of vivid dreams, unfolding characters from younger life and lovers lost or forgotten against dark fragments of modern time. A collision of rock, country, and folk idoms, HORSE LATITUDES alights with equal grace on full-band rockers and whispered solo pieces, delivering a collection of songs startling for their emotional breadth, and depth.

Recorded in three days in Los Angeles, HORSE LATITUDES features Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Ray Lamontagne) on pedal steel and electric guitars; Billy Conway (Morphine) on drums; Jennifer Condos (Don Henley, Sam Phillips) on electric bass, and Van Dyke Parks (Lowell George, Brian Wilson, Ry Cooder) on keys and accordion, with backing vocals and cello from Kris Delmhorst: a top-shelf ensemble that seamlessly merges the ferocity of rock and the honesty of country with the plaintive wonder in Foucault’s weathered voice.



PRAISE FOR HORSE LATITUDES

NEW YORKER MAGAZINE:
“Jeffrey Foucault’s latest album, “Horse Latitudes,” which is due out next month, is his first record of solely original songs in five years. Foucault’s voice, and his themes, are gruff, sombre, and deep, and his accompanying musicians, including the Pretenders’ Eric Heywood on pedal steel, create a sparse, dramatic soundscape.”

WASHINGTON POST:
"This is rock-and-roll in the key of country-noir: bleak visions of departed lovers, flickering TVs and empty landscapes underlined by pedal steel guitar and cello"

ROUGHSTOCK:
***** “Horse Latitudes is the kind of record that you listen to from start to finish and then sit there and marvel at how well the recording is put together… the songs are simply stunning in their breadth and lyrical scope”

THE TELEGRAPH (UK):
“HAUNTING AND POIGNANT TRIUMPH FROM AMERICAN SINGER **** Jeffrey Foucault is an original, beguiling songwriter with a marvelously expressive voice. He brings these talents together, along with fine guitar playing, to create a terrific album… John Updike once wrote of a character who was like an open window through which the rain poured. Foucault's album captures that poignancy.”

In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power.
“Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), “Quietly brilliant” (The Irish Times). "Close to Perfection..." (New York Times)

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