Ask a question and you’re bound to get an answer, so when feeble little horse ask us all over and over if we would like to reside snugly deep inside their collective “Pocket,” our reply is a resounding yes.
Pittsburgh’s mightiest feel good story this side of the contending Pirates (get well soon Oneil Cruz) dropped perhaps our first entry into Song of the Summer Szn (SOTSS) last week (May 10), a noisy and chaotic ode to would-be relationships and the haze of single life that has us being down for literally whatever they have in mind. The track is the latest from the indie noise-pop quartet’s forthcoming sophomore album Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek, and we just can’t get enough of it.
feeble little horse are composed of Lydia Slocum, Sebastian Kinsler, Jake Kelley and Ryan Walchonski, and they all chime in on the magnetic and varied appeal of “pocket.”
“For me ‘Pocket’ was a song about being single and not knowing what to do with myself,” Slocum says. “I got in the habit of showing someone affection and I liked it but then that ended and I just had all these kisses and hugs burning a hole in my pocket! I felt locked out often and like I was just stuck haunted by my old love and it felt like a dead man that wouldn’t leave me alone because the thoughts of it were so intrusive and repetitive.”
Walchonski notes that “‘Pocket’ had many different iterations but started as a straight Lydia song. We tried over and over to get it to its final form but I’m very happy with what we ended up with,” with Kelley adding that “the drums were super fun to record and the song itself is super weird in the coolest ways.”
But Kinsler keeps it realest, offering up that “right now our problem is I wrote and recorded the guitars while on post-surgery painkillers so we have no idea how to play it live.“
Dive into your new favorite song from your new favorite band below, and get a jump on those summer playlists well before Memorial Day weekend.