Horse Jumper of Love may no longer be a band from Boston, but that’s alright, as their sound remains plenty audible from no matter where they call home. Today (March 11), the New York-based indie rock trio release a rich new single in “Gates of Heaven” via Run For Cover, which serves as their first slow drip of new music since last year’s Heartbreak Rules album.
“‘Gates of Heaven’ is an old song I had been sitting on since 2015; I wrote it after a painful breakup and also after someone close to me had died,” says Dimitri Giannopoulos. It was a soothing nostalgic melody that I played to help distract myself. When you’re young you think love is everything but I think I was too immature to know what love or death meant. My persecution complex shows strong… I was trying to understand why these things were happening to me instead of trying to understand the pain those close to me were going through.”
Horse Jumper of Love have a busy year ahead, playing SXSW in Austin later this week before a pair of North American tours with Alvvays and DIIV. The band return to Boston on August 5, when they open the DIIV show at Royale. Get into “Gates of Heaven” below, and work on that audience sway between now and then.