The Horns Of Happiness

Horns of Happiness is the exuberant side project of Aaron Deer, whose work with <a href="spotify:artist:5GvoOzC8SnnziNKcpN9pFu">Impossible Shapes</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1T6kWX6TkJ3eESqKO65YC4">John Wilkes Booze</a> might already be well known to some. Where those bands reach for the arty side of indie pop, Horns of Happiness revel in fuzzy D.I.Y. production and down-home melodic sense. Though it's technically a solo project, the Brooklyn-based Deer has no qualms about dipping into his eclectic pool of musicians/friends for his outings, and the lines between the bands blur when one looks at the album credits. His first foray with the Horns (Sea as a Shore) came out in 2004 on the Secretly Canadian imprint and made more than one critic take notice of its lo-fi sweep and warm experimentalism. Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline followed in 2006 with more warm jets of loose-knit trip-folk, this time with percussionist Shelley Harrison firmly on the band's roster. ~ J. Scott McClintock, Rovi