The unrelenting Big Content Industry (BCI) demands a continuous stream of releases from bands in 2025, designed to keep momentum and buzz rolling atop all our social feeds and ensure that artists are permanent fixtures on not only our playlists, but also in our hearts. It’s a grind. We long for the days when a single song — an absolute fucking belter — was enough to feed the masses, to steady a beat forward for weeks and months and maybe even a year.
A song like “This Is Real” from feeble little horse.
The Pittsburgh indie noise-pop band dropped this SOTY contender, where the kaleidoscopic meets the unhinged, way back in March via Saddle Creek, their first new music since 2023’s Girl With Fish, and it has endured long enough in our headspace that highlight feeble little horse’s return to town six months later. The band plays Arts at the Armory in Somerville tonight (September 29), and it should be, whether “This Is Real” is in the setlist or not, the perfect tonic to the usual Monday malaise.
Interestingly enough, the notion of a timeline is embedded within the track’s origin story.
“I think it’s important that this song is released to turn the page, but also to enjoy the product of sitting with something for a record breaking amount of time for us as a band,” says feeble little horse’s Lydia Slocum. “We wrote our past 2 albums with this indescribable urgency, and I think ’This Is Real’ happened while the burner was turned to low if that makes sense. I wouldn’t say this track can function as a prophecy for what our sound will become for the next album, but it’s become something no other song will ever quite compare to. I seriously grew so much as a person from the beginning to end of the writing process… I hope this track can function as a time capsule for our fans the same way it has for us.”
FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE : KASSIE KRUIT :: Monday, September 29 at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave. in Somerville, MA :: 6:30 p.m., all ages :: Event info :: Advance tickets