feeble little horse’s ‘bitknot’ sounds unmistakably modern

Remember websites from the early 2000s? Full of hyperlinks, little animated GIFs and slow-loading images. They were messy, chaotic and so different from the streamlined online experience we have today.

That’s a bit like listening to bitknot, the new album from Pittsburgh’s feeble little horse.

Their sound is glitchy and unpredictable, like the internet of yore, but there’s also a hooky sweetness to their music, along with lyrics that feel unmistakably modern.

Coming up, vocalist and bassist Lydia Slocum and multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Kinsler talk about making bitknot and some of the themes that run through it, including mortality and our relationship with the internet.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus. Our executive producer is Bruce Warren.