09/24/2025

Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt Announce FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field

Extended Field, the long-anticipated eighteenth entry in RVNG’s intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, unites avant-rock quartet Horse Lords and veteran minimalist composer and psychoacoustic pioneer Arnold Dreyblatt.

Together, the group creates a vibrant harmonic environment fueled by a shared devotion to rhythm, achieving a marriage of discreet but related aesthetics for the ages. This intersection of adventurous musicians drawn to the sonically radiant world of just intonation—an ancient tuning system in which scale intervals are derived from whole-number ratios—is a perfect manifestation of the FRKWYS spirit.

We share “Advance”, the tone-setting album opener and sonic map of the hypnotic rhythms that contour the album. Layers of Dreyblatt’s bowed metallic double bass mingle with a cascading pulse of excited strings, echoing the staccato thump of Max Eilbacher’s bass. The tom-patterns of guest drummer Andrea Belfi rumble in the distance, sending battle signs to warn listeners of the off-kilter churn to come.

Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt’s FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field arrives in full November 21, 2025 in vinyl and digital editions. Available for pre-order now, direct from the RVNG webstore and Bandcamp.