Gus Englehorn
Looks Through the Crack with The Hornbook
avant-pop, garage rock, lo-fi, outsider music
Listen, listen—a world is speaking! A world where playfulness is a source of wisdom, and entertaining insane thoughts is serious business. For his third album, released on the Montreal-based label Secret City Records, Gus Englehorn named this world The Hornbook. With his wife, Estée Preda, by his side, the self-taught singer-songwriter and guitarist from Alaska has assembled a body of work that resembles an early-education tool for our hidden inner children—offering guidance on how to create a work of art. Mixed by Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers), his music isn’t a gentle stroll through the woods but rather a twisted mental exercise—a psychological thriller wrapped inside an obscure Jean Cocteau film, wrapped inside a children’s puppet show.
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