Sleeper Horse
When the Blackout Pact imploded in the City of Sin last year, singer Mike Herrerra returned to Denver on a mission. A mission to accomplish what his previous band could not; rock and roll domination. It took Herrerra almost six months to find the perfect combination of members to make up his new project, scouring the entire nation. What he came up with was immediately branded Sleeper Horse.
The four members of the Horse- Herrerra, Josh Friedman, Matt Clark and Ryan Kelly- all come from diverse music backgrounds, ranging from math rock to straight-up punk to sludgey metal to electronic dance. The band taps into aspects of these backgrounds to form their music, somehow avoiding a total sonic trainwreck. With the double-pronged vocal attack of Herrerra and Friedman followed by the crushing, kinetic beatings of Kelly and Clark, Sleeper Horse sounds like the Murder City Devils or Hot Water Music if they were Faint cover bands.
Sleeper Horse combines the broken bottle rock we all know and love with the pop and disco sensibilities that are our guilty pleasures. If we can sing gruff songs about whiskey and heartbreak while making you dance uncontrollably, well then, we’ve done our job here.