Art Rock Collective For Breakfast Announce Sophomore EP; Share Lead Single “Heavy Horse Museum”

Edited press release:

London 7-piece For Breakfast have announced their second EP Trapped in the Big Room, out 20th May via Glasshouse Records and release its lead single “Heavy Horse Museum”.

Emerging in their current form in 2019 in North London after a string of line-up changes, For Breakfast pull together seven musicians from varying musical backgrounds, bolting together elements of dream pop, post-rock, jazz, noise rock and psychedelia together to form an aural experience like no other.

New single “Heavy Horse Museum” along with the forthcoming EP were recorded on a decommissioned Cold War airbase in Suffolk in the Autumn of 2021. Speaking on the release of the new track, vocalist Maya and saxophonist Eden commented:

Maya: “The words were written after the song itself. Sam and I played a version of exquisite corpse where we assembled words on big scraps of paper on the floor, using the title to find the slightly bizarre and disjointed narrative found in the song. I then wrote the lyrics from the mess we made – it ended up with a bit of a witchy, otherworldly feeling steeped in history and the versions of it we don’t often see or hear about.”

Eden: “The song started as a kind of mellow jam that came out of tinkering on the piano during first lockdown. Bringing it to band practice really sparked it into life — everyone started throwing bits into the mix and the tune became this maelstrom of noise, with a fully fleshed out middle section. Completely different to the original piece but incredibly gratifying to hear it become what it has.”

With sounds ranging from “carnivalesque jazz to downy-dream pop to cathartic grind ballads”, the new EP is the product of the seven musicians flexing their creative muscles to form something beyond their respective singular powers.

Old Jet, the studio where For Breakfast recorded the new EP, is on a decommissioned Cold War airbase that also happens to be the site of one of the UK’s most significant UFO sightings. While neither the Cold War nor aliens were themes the band intended to get into, something about the place definitely permeated the record: “We never deliberately set out to explore any specific themes, but there are definite images and emotions that materialise; in this case, yearning, fear, joy – an openness, or a desire for it. Trees, walls, and water,” the band said.

Check out the eerie accompanying visual below: