Pulled Apart By Horses Release “Reality Cheques” Album

After a period of rest, reflection and transformation, in 2021 Pulled Apart By Horses signed to their new home at Alcopop! Records for the release of their long-awaited forthcoming fifth studio album, Reality Cheques, that is out today. The band also parted ways with guitarist James Brown, in the wake of this Rob Lee took over on guitar duties, Tom Hudson and Tommy Davidson continued with vocals and drums and Owen Griffiths (Blacklisters) returned to guest on bass for live dates.

In light of the line up change, when writing for Reality Cheques, the band made a collective decision to create a set of songs that were minimal, simple, direct, and delivered with rawness and urgency. The biggest change in the band’s approach to date sees Hudson ditching his guitar and focusing solely on vocals, something that has given the band a refreshed, leaner feel. The band will also be heading out on an extensive run of UK headline tour dates in support of the new record.

“The fat was trimmed! We spent months playing the songs for the new album in our practice space and on a small ‘up close and personal’ UK tour to set them in stone. We headed to the Nave studio in Leeds off the back of that tour and captured the tracks live, tour tight and locked in! Our musical tastes change monthly, never mind over the course of the years, so we are never going to be the kind of band who’d do the same album every time. We’ve always been that band that are ‘too heavy for the indie kids, and too indie for the heavy kids’ in industry terms, but it’s quite cool that people don’t really know where to put us, because it means no-one can easily slap a genre name upon us. Now we have the freedom to just be who we are.” ((Tom Hudson))