Horse Lords share video for “First Galactic Utopia”

Last month, Horse Lords announced their new album, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, which is out June 12 via RVNG Intl. Today, the band has shared another new song from the album, “First Galactic Utopia,” which arrives via a video directed by Alexander Stewart. Watch it below.

“I started on a computer by creating looping patterns of dashes and dots using vectors, and drew the frames on paper with a computer-controlled pen plotter, thinking the video would be cool as an animation,” Stewart said in a statement. “Once I saw the patterns animated, I realized that they would be ideal to use with video synthesizers. The textures and colors that the video feedback generated brought the drawn loops into a galactic visual space.” 

Horse Lords’ last album was 2022’s Comradely Objects, which is featured on our list of the 50 Best Albums of 2022.

Horse Lords tour dates:

05/22/26 – Viernulvier – Ghent, BE
05/23/26 – Nuits Botanique – Brussels, BE
05/30/26 –  Angelica Festival –  Bologna, IT
05/31/26 –  Jazz Is Dead –  Turin, IT
06/19–06/20/26 – Motvind Festival –  Kongsberg, NO

07/09–07/10/26 – Winnipeg Folk Festival – Winnipeg, CA
07/11/26 – The Cedar – Minneapolis, MN
07/12/26 – Art Lit Lab – Madison, WI
07/13/26 – Rozz Tox – Rock Island, IL
07/14/26 – Foundry Theatre – Yellow Springs, OH
07/15/26 – Manny’s – State College, PA
07/16/26 – Torn Space Theatre – Buffalo, NY
07/17–07/18/26 – Hillside Festival – Guelph, ON
07/19/26 – PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance – Chatham, NY
07/25/26 – The Getty Center – Los Angeles, CA

08/01/26 –  Beseda Festival – Tasov, CZ
08/06–08/08/26 –  Haldern Pop Festival – Haldern, DE

11/03/26 – VoxHall – Aarhus, DK
11/04/26 –  Loppen –  Copenhagen, DK
11/05/26-  Hus 7 – Stockholm, SE
11/07/26 – MS Stubnitz – Hamburg, DE
11/09/26 –  Instants Chavirés – Paris, FR
11/11/26 –  ICA – London, UK
11/15/26 –  L’Aéronef – Lille, FR
11/18/26 –  Silent Green – Berlin, DE
11/19/26 –  Pardon To Tu –  Warsaw, PL