Horse Lords Share New Single "First Galactic Utopia"

The second rung to Horse Lords’ forthcoming album Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! appears today with “First Galactic Utopia.”

“First Galactic Utopia” plays with taffy-like delayed guitars and a dry, dizzy beat, anchored by fuzz bass and the distorted refrain of a Kuwaiti mirwas hand drum. The rhythm section is palpably locked-in, an immovable baseline as the root around which psychedelic fields of synthesized elements rotate. A brief passage of expansive, electronic filaments emerge, closing out this curious, ass-shaking nugget of experimental transcendence.

The single arrives alongside a mind-melting video from Alexander Stewart, with visual patterns of dashes and dots moving and looping in intricate, hypnotic choreography.

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is available for pre-order, and will be released on June 12, 2026 in vinyl, CD, and digital editions.