Sunday Morning Music: Hold Your Horses!

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

“It hardly looked like a novel at all; I hardly look like a hero at all.”

I woke up late today, so today’s Sunday Morning is really more like Sunday Afternoon, and suitably a little more stirring. Franco-americain group Hold Your Horses!, comprised of seven official band members, stole my heart upon waking with this curious little clip for their song “70 million.” These poor kids don’t even have a Wikipedia page yet. If you type in their name, you are treated to an explanation of the idiom “hold your horses.” I know the phrase well; my family employed it all the time. I have never been very good at holding my metaphorical horses.

Good lord, I love gang vocals. This song is now stuck in my head, likely for the rest of the day. Sweet accent tinged vocals totally invading my mind. This video is also a game (what pieces of art can you identify?) tempered by some extremely pale boy near-nudity.

They have delightful MySpace band member bios (ex: ”Florence plays the drums, the guitar and sings. She uses alcohol as a crutch and dreams in Frenglish.”) Some other song names from the page: “Now I shall go to overtake that killer,” “Patience while tantrums of waterfalls.” It’s nice to see some effort to bring some personality to a MySpace page, but I still can’t wait until bands feel like they don’t have to have an entry on that terrible, glittery mess of a social network.

I hear a “mon dieu” at the end of this video and this charms the hell out of me.