Sugar Horse – ‘Waterloo Teeth’ [EP] [Album Review]

Despite being an all-too-brief nineteen minutes long, boundary-pushing Bristol quartet Sugar Horse has collaborated with a mouthwatering collection of genre-smashing artists from around the UK on their new EP Waterloo Teeth. With four tracks which, musically, refuse to sit still and certainly refuse to be pigeonholed, the Bristol quartet has been joined by members of IDLES, Biffy Clyro, Pupil Slicer and more for a genuinely mind-melting experience.

Refusing to be restrained by musical boundaries, Waterloo Teeth isn’t just content with shifting direction from song to song. No way, even within a song such as the title track, where the quartet is joined by Dave Larkin and Will Gardner from Black Peaks and Paul Tierney from Lonely Tourist, you’ll find the sound shifting dramatically from a jazz-like saxophone intro to bursts of almost black metal fury. As if that wasn’t enough, “Gutted” lumbers from some bowel-rumbling doomy passages through almost operatic sections and into a blast of white-hot metallic hardcore.

As the Bristolians follow that barrage up with the brooding “Super Army Soldiers,” you should be questioning whether you’re in the company of a collective of musical geniuses or just complete lunatics with no regard for boundaries, genres or just general safety as the track and this brilliantly unpredictable and chaotic EP closes out to a wall of spark-flying feedback.

Waterloo Teeth Track Listing:

1. Disco Loadout
2. Waterloo Teeth
3. Gutted
4. Super Army Soldiers

Run Time: 19:31
Release Date: October 28, 2022
Record Label: Small Pond Records